Apollo 1 (Failure before launch)

Ed White

• Birthday: 11/14/1930
• Role: Senior Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/03/1965
• Last Flight: 01/27/1967

Edward Higgins White II was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. On Jun...

Gus Grissom

• Birthday: 04/03/1926
• Role: Command Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 07/21/1961
• Last Flight: 01/27/1967

Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was one of the seven original National Aeronautics and Space Administr...

Roger B. Chaffee

• Birthday: 02/15/1935
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/27/1967
• Last Flight: 01/27/1967

Roger Bruce Chaffee was an American naval officer, aviator, and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo ...

Mission

Apollo 1

• Type: Human Exploration
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was the first crewed mission of the United States Apollo program, the undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module. The mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27 killed all three crew members—Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the command module (CM). The name Apollo 1, chosen by the crew, was made official by NASA in their honor after the fire.

Crew and spacecraft lost due to a cabin fire that occurred during a launch rehearsal at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27, 1967.

Location

Launch Complex 34

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 34 has witnessed the launch of 9 rockets, including 3 orbital launch attempts. While Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA, has been the site for 1029 rocket launches.

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.

Rocket

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Saturn IB

The Saturn IB (pronounced "one B", also known as the Uprated Saturn I) was an American launch vehicle commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the Apollo program. It replaced the S-IV second stage of the Saturn I with the much more powerful S-IVB, able to launch a partially fueled Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) or a fully fueled Lunar Module (LM) into low Earth orbit for early flight tests before the larger Saturn V needed for lunar flight was ready.

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Agency

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.