Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was the first crewed mission of the United States Apollo program the program to land the first men on the Moon. Planned as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module with a crew, to launch on February 21, 1967, the mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27 killed all three crew members Digital Heritage and Humanities Center, University of South Florida Libraries 2019: Apollo 1 - Grissom White and Chaffee Memorial at Launch Complex 34 - LiDAR - Terrestrial , LiDAR - Aerial . Collected by Digital Heritage and Humanities Center, University of South Florida Libraries , Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of eXpertise (JALBTCX) . Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. doi.org/10.26301/kz88-9d21