On January 27th 1967, the crew that were training for the first Apollo mission were killed in a flash fire in the capsule during a simulation. They may have launched in the following month if this had not occurred. There were many faults in the system, some of which the Commander of the mission, Gus Grissom, had complained of during his last hours. The investigation uncovered many more flaws, and it has been said that the US may not have gotten to the moon as soon as it did if the mass changes recommended in the report had not been implemented. See the Related Links below for more information.
It was Apollo 7 in 1967.
Apollo 1 was supposed to launch on February 21, 1967.
October 9, 1967
on January 27, 1967
Apollo 1 was not an actual program, it was a scheduled mission as part of the Apollo Program. Apollo 1 had a scheduled launch date of February 21, 1967.
It was Apollo 7 in 1967.
Apollo 1 was supposed to launch on February 21, 1967.
October 9, 1967
on January 27, 1967
Apollo 1 was scheduled to launch Feb 21, 1967, but was destroyed by fire Jan 27, 1967.
Apollo 1 was not an actual program, it was a scheduled mission as part of the Apollo Program. Apollo 1 had a scheduled launch date of February 21, 1967.
Apollo 1 did not launch. It was running tests on the launch pad 21-Feb-1967 when oxygen at atmospheric pressure (extremely flammable) ignited in the command module, killing the astronauts (Grissom, White and Chaffee) and destroying the capsule.
Apollo 7 launched from the Air Force Station's launch pad LC-34 (this was the only Apollo mission that did not launch from Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39-A)
All up testing began with the very first Saturn V launch (Apollo 4) on November 9, 1967.
The Apollo 1 prime crew, killed in the tragic fire on the launch pad in January 1967, consisted of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee.
The rocket to launch Apollo 13 was the Saturn 5 rocket.
Apollo 12 was launched in December 1969.