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The Tragedy Of Apollo 1 And The Lessons That Brought Us To The Moon (forbes.com)
An anonymous reader writes: On January 27, 1967, the Apollo 1 crew was performing a "plugs-out" test of the Command/Service Module, an essential simulation of how the three-person capsule would perform under in-space conditions under its own power. At 6:30 PM, a voltage spike occurred, leading to a disaster. In 26 seconds, everything changed. The Apollo 1 fire and the tragic death of all three astronauts wasn't due to just a single point-of-failure, but rather due to five independent confounding factors that if any one of them had been different, the astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee might have survived. As it stands, all the crewed Apollo missions were scrapped for 20 months while NASA changed how they did business. The changes worked remarkably well, and 2.5 years later, humans walked on the Moon.
Nice try, StartsWithABang.
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I wonder who could be that anonymous reader ?
The 100% oxygen environment was the perfect fuel
Yeah, sure. I wonder what could have been the oxidant ?
startswithabang doesn't submit any more ?
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There are some areas of exploration that are worth the risk of life and limb, space exploration is up there
I agree... but visiting the Forbes site didn't make that list. ;)
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