On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission ...

But the real horror came when rescuers reached Apollo 1, five minutes after Chaffee’s initial shout. The command module, dimly lit by flickering flashlights, was a scene of devastation.

An investigator looks at the charred interior of the Apollo I command module after the flash fire that killed the astronauts. All three men were killed on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire erupted inside ...