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Date: Jan 27 13:49 2017

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Apollo I disaster: How three astronauts died on Earth On 27 January 1967, the crew of Apollo I were killed when the rehearsal for their mission went wrong. Read more __________________

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Date: Jan 26 12:13 2017

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NASA Remembers Its Fallen Heroes, 50th Anniversary of Apollo 1 Accident NASA will honour members of the NASA family, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery during the agency's annual Day of Remembrance on Tuesday, Jan. 31. On the Day of Remembrance, NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot, and other agency senior officials, will hold an observance and wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia starting at 11 a.m. EST. Read more __________________

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Date: Jan 27 08:01 2012

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Apollo 1 (also designated Apollo Saturn-204 and AS-204) was scheduled to be the first manned mission of the Apollo manned lunar landing program, with a target launch date of February 21, 1967. A cabin fire during a launch pad test on January 27 at Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral killed all three crew members - Command Pilot Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee - and destroyed the Command Module. Read more __________________

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Date: Jan 26 00:06 2011

Apollo 1 fatal fire. (1967)	Permalink

Apollo 1 (official designation Apollo/Saturn-204) was planned to be the first manned mission of the Apollo manned lunar landing program, set to launch in February 1967. Its flight was precluded by a fatal fire on January 27, which killed all three crew members. Read more __________________

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Date: Feb 18 22:22 2007

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With little fanfare, NASA on Saturday moved the burned-out Apollo I capsule to a facility that will better protect the aging spacecraft. The capsule has been stored at NASA Langley Research Centre since the investigation into the fatal fire on Jan. 27, 1967, concluded. Read more __________________

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Date: Feb 17 23:24 2007

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NASA has moved the Apollo 1 capsule and related materials approximately 90 feet to a newer, environmentally-controlled warehouse at NASA's Langley Research Centre in Hampton, Va., on Saturday, Feb. 17. __________________

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