Apollo 1 capsule. Burnt command module of the Apollo 1 spacecraft. This damage occurred on 27 January 1967 during a routine simulated launch test on b

---

Apollo 1 capsule. Burnt command module of the Apollo 1 spacecraft. This damage occurred on 27 January 1967 during a routine simulated launch test on board the Apollo Saturn V rocket. An electrical short circuit caused the fire, which engulfed the module and killed all 3 crew members that were on board. The crew were: Edward H. White II, Virgil I. Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee. This was to be the first manned Apollo space flight.

---

Size: 2580px × 3409px
Photo credit: © NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., 1, 1900s, 1960s, 27, 204, 1967, 20th, 27th, apollo, astronaut, astronauts, black--white, burned, burnt, capsule, century, chaffee, charred, command, crew, damage, damaged, dead, disaster, edward, failed, fatal, fire, grissom, historical, history, ii, january, killed, manned, module, monochrome, program, programme, race, roger, space, spacecraft, spaceflight, virgil, white