His transmission ended with a scream that was blood-curdling ... It made no difference. Fire hungrily gorged Apollo 1 as pressures sealed the hatch with immense force. No man on Earth could ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...