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I remember the Apollo fire was it Apollo 13? What year did the tragedy occur? All I can recall, was watching the funerals for the Astronauts on TV, sick on the couch.

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I remember the Apollo fire was it Apollo 13? What year did the tragedy occur? All I can recall, was watching the funerals for the Astronauts on TV, sick on the couch.

That was Apollo 1 and it was in January, 1967 when we lost 3 great Americans, Lt. Col. Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, USAF; Lt. Col. Edward H. White II, USAF; and Navy Lt. Roger B. Chaffee., on the launch pad in a flash fire during a pre-flight test.

My brother was on the ground crew and the first reports over the news said that there was a fire on the pad and launch crew workers were killed. I called my brother immediately and woke him up --- he had been working night shift and was home in bed when it happened.

Apollo 13 happened in April of 1970 and thank God (and good engineering) they came back alive.