On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission ...
27, 1967, pioneering Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee died here in their spacesuits while sealed inside their command module atop a massive Saturn IB rocket.