dailystar.co.uk
43%
397
Apollo 1 astronauts screamed 'we're burning up' before being torched alive in explosion
space race between the USA and the Soviet Union.As part of NASA's plan to be the first to land a man on the moon, they developed the Apollo programme. Apollo 1 – initially designated AS-204 – was due to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module.The mission never took place, however, as less than a month earlier, on January 27, a fire engulfed the cabin and burnt all three members alive.Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B.
