As it was the first time that astronauts were killed in a fire in their spacecraft.
It was Apollo 1 where all three died in a fire.
Fire broke out during a routine ground test. The crew could not escape and were killed.
Apollo's Fire was created in 1992.
If you mean first disaster, then the Apollo 1 fire would be regarded as the first. Three astronauts died in fire during a launch pad pre-flight test.
The explosion of the Challenger shuttle. The Reentry failure of Columbia. The fire aboard Apollo 1. There were the Soyuz 1 and 11 disasters. Apollo 13 mission was almost a disaster as well.
It was actually considered a near disaster, and this was because wires were exposed in the oxygen tank, creating rising and falling oxygen pressure. A spark from a wire also caused a fire, ripping apart one tank and damaging the next.
An explosion and subsequent fire caused the Chernobyl Disaster back in 1986. It's often considered one of the worst incidents involving a nuclear power plant in history.
No. The Apollo 1 crew were killed in a fire weeks before launch.
what happend to the people in Apollo 1
The Triangle Fire of 1911, aka The Triangle Disaster
Apollo 1 was never launched as there was a accident , a fire in which all three astronauts were killed due to a fire.
The Apollo 2 was unmanned. After the fire of Apollo 1, NASA felt safer testing the rocket without any crew aboard first. The next manned mission after the Apollo 1 fire was Apollo 7.