Tragedy struck the heart of the American space programme 59 years ago when a routine pre-launch simulation at Cape Kennedy turned fatal. On January 27, 1967, a flash fire ignited inside the Apollo 1 ...
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Apollo is remembered for Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon, but the program was built through a long chain of dangerous tests, failures, fixes, and near disasters. Before Apollo 11, NASA had to ...