Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Through tragedy there is triumph, and a film telling the story of NASA’s race to the moon and its first loss, "Apollo 1," ...

The first piloted Apollo flight – called Apollo 204, though it would later be known as Apollo 1 – was intended for tests in Earth orbit, part of the eventual path to later Apollo missions going to the ...

Twenty-one months after the deaths of the Apollo 1 crew in a fire during a test on the launchpad, the three men who had originally served as their backup crew - Walter Schirra Jr., Donn Eisele, and ...