Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

The Apollo Missions

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...
LAist

The Making Of Apollo's Command Module: 2 Engineers Recall Tragedy And Triumph

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Smithsonian Magazine

Apollos aplenty

A great irony of Apollo 1 is that it kicked off the third and final phase of the manned space program, and its most anticipated, with utter tragedy. The deaths of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger ...
Sacramento Bee

‘Fire in the cockpit.’ A 1967 tragedy taught NASA how to put a man on the moon

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...
Purdue University

Apollo module replica taking shape

Purdue workers move one piece of the full-scale replica of the Apollo 1 command module into the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on Tuesday (Oct. 9). The capsule, on loan from the Kansas Cosmosphere ...