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 ...

John Young piloted the command module. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remembered the Soviet reaction to Apollo 10: "We used to joke that Stafford, rather than just doing a maneuver, could have changed ...

But the real horror came when rescuers reached Apollo 1, five minutes after Chaffee’s initial shout. The command module, dimly lit by flickering flashlights, was a scene of devastation.