Apollo 1, initially designatedAS-204, was the first manned mission of the United States’ lunar landing program. The mission tragically ended after a cabin fire during a launch test killed the crew and destroyed the command module on January 27, 1967. {Crew: Command Pilot, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom; Senior Pilot, Edward H. White II; Pilot, Roger B. Chaffee}