![Apollo 1 emblem](patch.gif) |
AS-204 Patch-"The Patch That Never Flew" |
![3 astronauts in space suits](gallery1.gif) |
Astronauts for the first Apollo Mission (L-R) Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee |
![scale drawing of the Apollo Spacecraft](gallery4.gif) |
Apollo Spacecraft |
![photo of Apollo 1 spacecraft supported by cables](gallery10.gif) |
Apollo I |
![3 astronauts in spacesuits on alert](crewsuit.gif) |
Back-up crew of (L-R) Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham, and Wally Schirra in their modified G-3C space suits. |
![3 astronauts in spacesuits without helmuts in training](gallery11.gif) |
Astronauts for the first Apollo Mission (L-R) Roger B. Chaffee, Edward H. White and Virgil I. Grissom practice for the mission in the Apollo Mission Simulator |
![photo of fire damage to space capsule](gallery12.gif) |
The Capsule after the tragic fire |
![photo of the Apollo spacecraft after explosion](gallery13.gif) |
Exterior of Apollo/Saturn 204 spacecraft at White Room of Complex 34, Cape Kennedy, Fla |
![soldiers escorting flag draped coffins to cemetary](funeral.gif) |
The flag draped coffin of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom is being escorted at Arlington Cemetery, Va., by his fellow astronauts |
![NASA administrators in Senate meeting](hearing.gif) |
Seated at the witness table before the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Services on the Apollo 204 Accident are; left to right -- Dr. Robert C. Seamans, NASA, Deputy Administrator, James E. Webb, Administrator, Dr. George E. Mueller, Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, and Maj. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips, Apollo Program Director |