Giant Leap: The Technology That Made The Apollo Mission Successful

For many, it's common knowledge that the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the moon, but the technology that got them ...
PBS

The Apollo Missions

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...
Tri-City Herald

‘Fire in the cockpit.’ A 1967 tragedy taught NASA how to put a man on the moon

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...
Arizona Daily Star

Jan. 28, 1967: Apollo 1 astronauts die in fire

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) ─ The three Apollo I Astronauts were killed last night by a flash fire that trapped them aboard the huge spacecraft designed to take a man to the moon by 1970. Locked behind ...
The New York Times

Walter Cunningham, Who Helped Pave the Way to the Moon, Dies at 90

In 1968 he was a member of the first manned Apollo mission, which buoyed an America shocked by a fatal capsule fire the previous year. By Richard Goldstein Walter Cunningham, a civilian astronaut ...