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| Photo: The primary crew of the first manned Apollo space flight (from left to right) Edward White, Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee. |
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| Only 100 Space City Cover Society covers were serviced at Houston, Texas. The Mission Control Center for the Apollo 1 testing was located in Houston. A black, orange and navy color cachet are shown here. |
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| Photo: Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Edward White during training. |
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| Marsar rubber stamp cachet, postmarked at Patrick Air Force Base. The post office was opened until 8pm on January 27, 1967. Very few covers serviced for the Apollo 1 fire tragedy on the same day. |
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| Photo: Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee were killed on January 27, 1967, when a fire inside the space capsule caused the death of the three astronauts. |
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| Boudwin rubber stamp cachet, postmarked at Patrick Air Force Base on January 27, 1967. |
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| Photo: The seating position of the Apollo 1 crew in the capsule. |
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| Only 40 covers with the AS-204 cachet were applied with the Kennedy Space Center postmark, while some were double-postmarked. KSC post office closed at 6:30pm on January 27, 1967, so such covers were backdated. |
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| Covers serviced at Satellite Beach post office, which was opened until 8pm on January 27, 1967. |
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| Photo: Charred interior of the Apollo 1 capsule. |
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| Cover serviced at Cape Canaveral post office on January 28, 1967. Cancel delayed because the post office was closed when the tragedy occurred. |
