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Apollo 1
Last year we looked at the Challenger. This year: Apollo 1. On January 27, 1967, the three-man crew of Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White who were in training for the first Apollo flight were asphixiated in their capsule during a training exercise. The men reported communications glitches prior to the disaster, and it is believed that a spark in their pure-oxygen atmosphere quickly started an unstoppable blaze, consuming the many flammable components in the capsule. There were three hatches between the men and the outside of the capsule, which were not designed to be opened in less than 90 seconds. In addition, it is doubtful that the astronauts could have opened the internal hatch at all since pressure inside the spacecraft rose rapidly after the fire, exceeding the capacity of the pressure-equalization valves. Future designs were modified to remove most of the flammable components from the crew area and include a new quick-opening hatch. NASA has a retrospective.
I'd say it's too early to post any +5 Funny comments about this.
However, the Earl of Sandwich in now fair game;
When he died, they put a giant toothpick through his coffin.
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That's because there have been over 200 some Russians killed in their space program. Having only had a handful of Americans killed is quite an accomplishement if you ask me. There are so many variables in those launches that it's amazing more people didn't die. It is still sad that they did though.
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Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
. . . Someone didnt get the joke.
*points and laughs*
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You should know better than to screw with a patriot ... I'm posting +2 because slashdot moderators feel I can be trusted with that (proof by their moderations ...)
What's next ... you pro communism?
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Sarcasm.
When your karma gets above a certain point, you get a free +1 bonus to your posts. My karma hasn't been below 47 for about a year or so, so I have the bonus. The only reason this post is at 1 is becuase I turned off the +1 bonus for this post.
If you notice, my first post started at two and had to be modded down twice to get down to 0.