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Armstrong and her 2 sons watched the liftoff from a friend's yacht it's now 1032 on the morning of july 16th. the crew reached orbit around 12 minutes after launch here they fly over the canary islands on an altitude of 190 kilometers. now the crew had to make a key flight decision once they did there would be no turning back. nearly 3 hours after liftoff the 3rd stage of the saturn 5 rocket was fired which pushed the apollo capsule into

And roger chaffee. during a launch test in january 1967 a fire broke out in the capsules cabin and spread quickly all 3 astronauts were killed. nasa blamed the fire on deficiencies in capsule design workmanship and quality control. the agency made improvements to the spacecraft and to operational procedures. meanwhile nasa continued to experiment with using parachutes to return apollo capsule safely to earth. a more difficult challenge was the design and construction of the vehicle that would actually land the astronauts on the surface of the mood. armstrong took part in flight tests early ver...

Last thing before we go, the departure of a brave woman in american life that gave more than her fair share. many of us will go to see the new movie "first man" about the life and accomplishments of neil armstrong that won the apollo 11 mission and became the first man to walk on the moon. as the movie trailer already shows us, the film will deal with the death of the crew of apollo one, the first mission of the new apollo capsule. the three were killed while in the capsule and on the launch pad by a flash electrical fire. there was no emergency hatch. they couldn't get out and the 100% oxygen...

Than her fair share to this country. this weekend, many of us will be going to see the new movie "first man" about the life the life and accomplishments of neil armstrong that won the "apollo 1" mission and became the first man to walk on the moon. as the movie trailer already shows us, the film will deal with the death of the crew of apollo one, the first mission of the new apollo capsule. the three were killed while in the capsule and on the launch pad by a flash electrical fire. there was no emergency hatch. they couldn't get out and the 100% oxygen environment, they likely died in seconds....

. >> welcome back. the orion will make its way into orbit and circle the earth twice. it's testing out new technologies that may some day send people further into space than ever before. >> reporter: we could soon be one small step closer to humans laning on mars. this is orion, nasa's first deep space capsule since the '70s. >> why is this the time to do this? >> it's a great time because we have a design, and it's time to actually put the design into practice. >> orion's program manager said thursday's launch will test critical technologies like the heeld shield and re-enter system. orion ma...