Published on July 15, 2017
On Jan. 27, a public ceremony was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to mark the official opening of an Apollo 1 tribute at the Apollo/Saturn V Center located in the visitor complex. Jan. 27 was the 50-year anniversary of the accidental fire that occurred inside the Apollo 1 spacecraft on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy – tragically claiming the lives of astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. The investigation of the accident led to major design and safety improvements of the Apollo spacecraft for the coming journeys to the moon.
