AS-204

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AS-204, better known as Apollo 1, was the first crewed mission of NASA’s Apollo program, tragically remembered for the cabin fire during a pre-launch test in 1967 that killed its three astronauts.

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Label Occurrences
AS-204 canonical 2

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Apollo mission
crewed spaceflight mission
space disaster
accidentDate 1967-01-27
accidentLocation Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34
surface form: Launch Complex 34, Cape Kennedy
accidentPhase pre-launch ground test
accidentType cabin fire
alsoKnownAs Apollo 1
astronaut Edward White
surface form: Edward H. White II

Roger B. Chaffee
Gus Grissom
surface form: Virgil I. Grissom
cabinAtmosphere 100 percent oxygen at high pressure
causeOfDeath asphyxiation and burns from cabin fire
commander Gus Grissom
surface form: Virgil I. Grissom
commandModulePilot Edward White
surface form: Edward H. White II
commandModuleSerialNumber CM-012
country United States of America
surface form: United States
crewSize 3
designationHistory originally designated AS-204
posthumously named Apollo 1
era Space Race
fatalities 3
fatality Edward White
surface form: Edward H. White II

Roger B. Chaffee
Gus Grissom
surface form: Virgil I. Grissom
hatchType inward-opening, multi-piece hatch
intendedOrbit low Earth orbit
launchLocation Cape Canaveral
surface form: Cape Kennedy, Florida
launchSite Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34
LC-34
launchVehicle Saturn IB
launchVehicleSerialNumber SA-204
ledTo Apollo spacecraft Block II redesign
memorial Apollo 1 Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery
missionType crewed Earth-orbital test flight
namedBy James E. Webb
surface form: NASA Administrator James E. Webb
operator NASA
plannedLaunchDate 1967-02-21
plannnedMissionDuration up to 14 days
program Apollo program
result improved spacecraft safety standards
major redesign of Apollo Command Module
mission never launched
seniorPilot Roger B. Chaffee
serviceModuleSerialNumber SM-012
spaceAgency NASA
spacecraftName Apollo Command Module 012
spacecraftType Apollo command and service module
surface form: Apollo Command/Service Module
status failed before launch
testPurpose to test spacecraft systems under flight-like conditions while on the pad
testType plugs-out test
year 1967

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: AS-204
Description of subject: AS-204, better known as Apollo 1, was the first crewed mission of NASA’s Apollo program, tragically remembered for the cabin fire during a pre-launch test in 1967 that killed its three astronauts.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Apollo 1 alsoKnownAs AS-204