The first piloted Apollo flight – called Apollo 204, though it would later be known as Apollo 1 – was intended for tests in Earth orbit, part of the eventual path to later Apollo missions going to the ...

Each year, on the last Thursday of January, NASA observes its Day of Remembrance in honor of the astronauts and astronaut candidates who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration. From ...

Twenty-one months after the deaths of the Apollo 1 crew in a fire during a test on the launchpad, the three men who had originally served as their backup crew - Walter Schirra Jr., Donn Eisele, and ...