Apollo 1
27 1967 tragedy struck on the launch pad at cape kennedy during a preflight test for apollo 204 as 204.
Apollo 1. A quality control inspector at nasa rogers had been working during a routine launch simulation test for apollo 1 the first. Apollo 1 tragedy jan. Apollo 1 was supposed to be the first manned mission to the moon but it would take five more tries before neil armstrong made his lunar leap. He was chosen was among nasa s first group of seven astronauts the mercury seven.
Apollo 1 as 204 disaster on pad 34 during a preflight test for what was to be the first manned apollo mission a fire claimed the lives of three u s. After the disaster the mission was officially designated apollo 1. Apollo 1 tragedy on jan. Apollo 1 also identified as as 204 was supposed to be launched on a saturn ib rocket to test the launch operations ground tracking and performance of the csm and it should have lasted up to two weeks.
The mission was to be the first crewed flight of apollo and was scheduled to launch feb. Fifty years ago henry rogers stepped off an elevator into an inferno. 27 1967 tragedy struck on the launch pad at cape kennedy during a preflight test for apollo 204 as 204. A fire famously broke out while the astronauts were.
Apollo 1 initially designated as 204 was the first crewed mission of the united states apollo program the undertaking to land the first humans on the moon. Gus grissom ed white and roger chaffee. 27 1967 nasa experienced its first space disaster the deaths of three astronauts during a training excercise for the apollo 1 mission. The apollo 1 crew commander virgil gus grissom was an air force veteran of the korean war.