Tag: Apollo 1

  • Video: Apollo 1 tribute opens at the Kennedy Space Center

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    On the 50th anniversary of the launch pad fire that killed the Apollo 1 astronauts, an immersive exhibit area paying tribute to the three men has opened at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Saturn V Center. Called “Ad Astra Per Aspera – A Rough Road Leads to the Stars,” the permanent exhibition carries the blessings…

  • Apollo 1 tragedy remembered 50 years later

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, pose in front of Launch Complex 34. Credit: NASA With the first Apollo launch less than a month away, America’s race to the moon was in high gear. The three-man crew of the first Apollo test flight — commander Virgil “Gus”…

  • Families, NASA honor fallen astronauts

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION On the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, crew families, friends and space workers gathered Thursday to remember the 17 men and women who lost their lives on the high frontier, 14 in two space shuttle disasters and three in an Apollo-era launch pad fire 49 years ago…