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, [...] ...

On this date in 1967, a flash fire onboard the Apollo 1 capsule during a test procedure claimed the lives of three astronauts.

Twenty-seven launch pad workers were felled by smoke ... Eisele and Walter Cunningham were the backup team for Apollo 1 and presumably will move into the void left by Grissom, White and Chaffee.

The ceremony paid homage to Columbia’s seven along with the seven who died on Space Shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986, the three Apollo 1 astronauts that died in a fire on the launch pad ...