🚀 🌕 50 years ago today, Apollo 15 lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Aboard were NASA Astronauts David Scott, James B. Irwin, and Alfred M. Worden, the Lunar Roving Vehicle that would be our first wheels on the Moon, and a trove of science instruments. Watch: youtu.be/1Mqsd0ru_pc | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

11K views · 287 reactions | On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/ez1ouH The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of the U.S. space program. Apollo 1 was supposed to be the first flight that NASA would conduct to prepare for a crewed landing on the moon. Less than a month before their planned launch date, a fire erupted inside