A few weeks earlier Thomas K. Mattingly got measles and was grounded. Astronaut Jack Swigert took his place.
Apollo 1 was supposed to launch on February 21, 1967.
she blew up
Astronauts stayed inside the Apollo Command Module during launch and reentry. This module was attached to the Saturn V rocket during launch and detached for reentry to bring the astronauts safely back to Earth.
The rocket to launch Apollo 13 was the Saturn 5 rocket.
it never landed. The first 10 Apollo were test flights. Apollo 1 had a fire.
Apollo 1 was supposed to launch on February 21, 1967.
she blew up
Astronauts stayed inside the Apollo Command Module during launch and reentry. This module was attached to the Saturn V rocket during launch and detached for reentry to bring the astronauts safely back to Earth.
The rocket to launch Apollo 13 was the Saturn 5 rocket.
it never landed. The first 10 Apollo were test flights. Apollo 1 had a fire.
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.
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.
Two Apollo spaceships experienced catastrophic incidents resulting in loss of life: Apollo 1 on the launch pad in 1967 during a pre-launch test, and Apollo 13 in 1970 during its mission due to an oxygen tank explosion.
Several people died, but none during an actual mission. Three astronauts died during a fire in the Apollo 1 capsule during a test launch in 1967.
Apollo 1 did not get launched on a specific date; it was scheduled for February 21, 1967, but a cabin fire during a pre-launch test on January 27, 1967, resulted in the tragic deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee.
The Apollo mission 14 launch date was January 31, 1971.
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)