A great irony of Apollo 1 is that it kicked off the third and final phase of the manned space program, and its most anticipated, with utter tragedy. The deaths of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger ...

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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 ...