The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.

Apollo 1 was meant to be the first crewed spaceflight ... the Apollo program remains the biggest and most powerful rocket ever launched with the record for the largest payload capacity to reach ...

Buzz Aldrin saw it knocked over by the rocket blast as he and Neil Armstrong ... patch memorializing the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire; medals honoring Soviets Yuri Gagarin ...

The charred and disassembled Apollo 1 spacecraft, weeks after the accident ... I can still see the flames reaching up toward the Solid Booster Rocket mounted on top of the spacecraft.

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, the AS-202 ...