Apollo 1 fire. White, Chaffee, and Grissom killed.
The three astronauts killed in the fire in Apollo 1 names were Gus Grissiom, Edward White. and Roger Chaffee.
As it was the first time that astronauts were killed in a fire in their spacecraft.
There was an accidental fire in the crew module that killed all three astronauts.
All the three astronauts were killed in the tragic fire of Apollo1.
The astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 spacecraft fire on January 27, 1967, were Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee.
It was in 1966.
Challenger and Columbia shuttles killed 14 astronauts but they were not destined for the Moon. The Space Shuttle only ever orbits the Earth. 3 Apollo 1 astronauts were killed on the launch pad when their cabin caught fire after a spark ignited the oxygen atmosphere they were breathing. No Apollo astronauts were killed after this disaster. Apollo 13 on it's way to the Moon came close but they managed to get all three home.
The Apollo 1 astronauts were Virgil Grissom, Edward white and Roger Chaffee. They were all killed in a fire.
Apollo 1 did not burst into flames. However, a cabin fire during a pre-launch test killed all three astronauts on board: Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee in 1967. Seven astronauts died in another space shuttle disaster, the Challenger explosion in 1986.
Three: Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee.
Apollo 1- a launch pad test resulted in a fire in the space capsule exacerbated by the fact that, at that time, NASA had a high oxygen atmosphere in space capsules, which greatly intensified the fire. The 3 astronauts in the capsule were killed, Grissom, White and Chaffee.They were the only Astronauts lost in the Apollo program.
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