America Won the Space Race Because of a Horrible Accident That Killed 3 Astronauts

Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 6:20 a.m.

\u201c We\u2019ve got a fire in the cockpit!\u201d That was the cry heard over the radio on January 27, 1967, after astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in...