NASA will use Apollo 1 hatch to honor fallen crew

Apollo 13 might be the space mission that everyone knows offhand thanks to director Ron Howards movie, but it wasnt the first to experience critical failures. On January 27th, 1967 the three-man Apollo 1 crew was trapped inside its spacecraft, still on the launchpad, as smoke roiled inside the capsule and suffocated them. Now on the fatal missions 50th anniversary, NASA is taking the three-part hatch that trapped Roger B. Chaffee, Virgil Gus Grissom and Edward White out of storage …
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