Title

Apollo 1 - NASA, c1967. Creator: NASA.

Caption

Apollo 1 - NASA, c1967. Portrait of the Apollo 1 prime crew for first manned Apollo space flight. From left to right are: Edward H. White II, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee. On January 27, 1967 at 5:31 p.m. CST (6:31 local time) during a routine simulated launch test onboard the Apollo Saturn V Moon rocket, an electrical short circuit inside the Apollo Command Module ignited the pure oxygen environment and all three Apollo 1 crewmembers died.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Space

Reference

HRM20A46_495

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

56,3Mo (1,7Mo) / 42,0cm x 33,6cm / 4960 x 3968 (300dpi)

Keywords

space science fire dead cosmos accident scientific Apollo universe MISSION spaceship rocket space exploration NASA Colour Outerspace deaths 1960s American America space capsule rocketry NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration space programme Heritage Space Apollo1 Virgil Ivan Grissom Edward Higgins White II Roger Bruce Chaffee Apollo Saturn V