The Apollo 1 Command Module after the fire that claimed the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Credit: NASA. NASA s Apollo program began with one of the worst disasters the ...

Apollo 1 astronauts Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom, 1967. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. By Ben Cosgrove. January 26, 2014 3:45 PM EST.

Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. These three astronauts lost their lives in the Apollo 1 fire. NASA. The sixties, like today, were a turbulent time.

Ed White is buried at West Point. This week, their families gathered in Florida for the Astronauts Memorial Foundation's annual day of remembrance, which honored Apollo 1, as well as Challenger ...

Three American astronauts - Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee ... Apollo 1 on Jan. 27, 1967 was the first human tragedy to strike America's space program, but it wasn't the last.

On Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, the first American to walk in space, Ed White and rookie Roger Chaffee all died when a flash fire erupted inside their space capsule ...

Grissom’s crewmates for Apollo 1 were thirty-six-year-old Ed White, the first American spacewalker and already a national hero, and thirty-one-year-old Roger Chaffee, a member of the 1963 group ...

Archival video of news anchor Mike Wallace reporting on the accidental deaths of NASA Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee during a launch test at Cape Kennedy in FL on ...

Roger Chaffee and Apollo 1 crewmates Gus Grissom and Ed White had been killed by a flash fire that swept through their capsule that evening in 1967, during what was considered a routine countdown ...

NASA on Tuesday memorialized the Apollo 1 crew — Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee — by dedicating the hills surrounding the Spirit rover's landing site to the astronauts. The crew of ...

Attend a memorial at the now-crumbling launch site where 50 years ago a fire took the lives of the astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White.

APOLLO 1 ED WHITE IV. January 28, 2017 | Clip Of CBS News Special Report on Apollo 1 Disaster This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN. User Clip: APOLLO 1 ED WHITE IV ...