Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice the rocket's pointed tip and the fire coming from the five giant engines in the first stage of the 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket.
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OTD In Space - January 27: Apollo 1 Fire
On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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Anniversary of Apollo 1 disaster: Jan. 27 a dark day in NASA history
Jan. 27 is a dark day in the world of space exploration. It’s the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three NASA ...
The prime crew for the first manned flight of Project Apollo died in a flash fire inside the three-man spacecraft atop its ...
Three Apollo I astronauts Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, [...] ...
Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...
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