No. Three astronauts, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, were killed while on the launch pad during a dress rehearsal for the launch. An electrical fault caused a fire in the cockpit of the Command Module which ruptured from the intensity of the heat.
Apollo 1 was supposed to launch on February 21, 1967.
it never landed. The first 10 Apollo were test flights. Apollo 1 had a fire.
The average Apollo mission cost about $500,000,000, however, Apollo 1 was much cheaper since it didn't launch. It burned a month before the scheduled launch, killing the crew.
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.
The Apollo spacecraft that exploded on the launch pad was Apollo 1. The tragic accident occurred on January 27, 1967 during a pre-launch test. The crew members aboard, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, lost their lives in the fire.
Apollo 1 was supposed to launch on February 21, 1967.
it never landed. The first 10 Apollo were test flights. Apollo 1 had a fire.
Apollo 1 did not launch. There was a cabin fire that killed all three crew members.
The average Apollo mission cost about $500,000,000, however, Apollo 1 was much cheaper since it didn't launch. It burned a month before the scheduled launch, killing the crew.
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.
The Apollo spacecraft that exploded on the launch pad was Apollo 1. The tragic accident occurred on January 27, 1967 during a pre-launch test. The crew members aboard, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, lost their lives in the fire.
No. The Apollo 1 crew were killed in a fire weeks before launch.
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 1 was scheduled to launch Feb 21, 1967, but was destroyed by fire Jan 27, 1967.
Well, the Apollo 1 didn't even launch. During a launch pad test, the cabin caught fire (don't know how though) and all crew members died.
The rocket to launch Apollo 13 was the Saturn 5 rocket.
Apollo 1 was the first planned manned launch of the Apollo flight system. It was destroyed by fire, killing the three crew members aboard, while performing a routine ground-based test weeks before launch.