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‘Got a fire in the cockpit!’: The Apollo 1 tragedy that killed three astronauts
Three astronauts were sealed inside a spacecraft preparing for a simulated liftoff to practice what would happen for real less than a month later. The three men are remembered in history not for their space flight but as being the first on-duty fatalities for NASA. It was 6:31 p.m. on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire started in Apollo 1 killing ...
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