AP WAS THERE: 50 years ago, AP reported on fatal Apollo fire

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) — The three Apollo I astronauts were killed tonight by a flash fire that trapped them aboard the huge spacecraft designed to take man to the moon by 1970. Locked behind sealed hatches and killed instantly just 218 feet above the ground were: Air Force Lt. Col. Virgil (Gus) Grissom, a […]