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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test. But from the Apollo 1 command module at Pad 34 came a panicked voice saying, “Fire in the cockpit.” Exactly 40 years later, the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The ...

Crew members of NASA's Apollo 1 mission were honored this week at the Arlington National Cemetery for the tragedy that was the first in American space program history. More than half a century ago, a ...