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Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire
Posted on 1/27/17 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 1/27/17 at 12:12 pm
Claiming the life of three American pioneers and heroes.
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A new tribute opened Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, dedicated to the lives, accomplishments and memories of the three astronauts who perished 50 years ago in a launch pad fire while training for the flight of Apollo 1. The tribute exhibit stands only a few miles from the long-abandoned Launch Complex 34, the launch pad where the fire took place. The pad was dismantled in 1968 after the launch of Apollo 7.
Called "Ad Astra Per Aspera - A Rough Road Leads to the Stars," the permanent exhibition carries the blessings of the families of Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White II and Roger Chaffee. It showcases clothing, tools and models that define the men as their parents, wives and children saw them as much as how the nation viewed them.
The tribute also displays for the first time the three-section hatch from the Apollo 1 capsule that caught fire at Launch Complex 34 on Jan. 27, 1967. The astronauts were not able to escape the smoke and blaze inside the spacecraft before they asphyxiated despite their own efforts and those of numerous pad crew members who braved thick fumes and scorching temperatures to try to get the men out.
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This post was edited on 1/27/17 at 11:15 pm
Posted on 1/27/17 at 12:15 pm to meeple
Deke Slayton on Gus Grissom and the moon landings:
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"Had Gus been alive, as a Mercury astronaut he would have taken the [first] step ... My first choice would have been Gus, which both Chris Kraft and Bob Gilruth seconded."
Posted on 1/27/17 at 12:32 pm to meeple
I've always been fascinated by the early space flight astronauts since seeing The Right Stuff as a kid.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:04 pm to meeple
I was reading a piece yesterday or the day before about NASA finally deciding to bring the hatch out of storage and showing it in a memorial display at KSC. I did not realize that they had put remnants of Challenger and Columbia on display a few years ago as well.
Glad to see the Apollo 1 crew getting the full recognition they deserve. It is sad to think that there was a time the families had to pay for and place the memorial wreath each year themselves.
Glad to see the Apollo 1 crew getting the full recognition they deserve. It is sad to think that there was a time the families had to pay for and place the memorial wreath each year themselves.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:22 pm to meeple
I've been trying to figure out why 1/27 was significant all morning.
Thanks guy.
RIP to three American heroes. Gus was America's second man in space. Ed was the first American to perform a space walk. We take those actions relatively for granted, but back then it was literally strapping yourself to a weapon of war and praying that any one of a million moving parts wouldn't fail and kill you. Or if it did, it would do so quickly.
Even though suffocation through fire sounds like a relatively agonizing death - because of the unique nature of the pressurized environment and the overall violence of the event, they were likely unconscious after just a few seconds and expired a few seconds after that. At least I pray that's how it went. However small a comfort that is - I'll take it.
Thanks guy.
RIP to three American heroes. Gus was America's second man in space. Ed was the first American to perform a space walk. We take those actions relatively for granted, but back then it was literally strapping yourself to a weapon of war and praying that any one of a million moving parts wouldn't fail and kill you. Or if it did, it would do so quickly.
Even though suffocation through fire sounds like a relatively agonizing death - because of the unique nature of the pressurized environment and the overall violence of the event, they were likely unconscious after just a few seconds and expired a few seconds after that. At least I pray that's how it went. However small a comfort that is - I'll take it.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:23 pm to meeple
must have been a horrific way to go! It still amazes me that we sent people to the moon with the technology that was available at the time.
Posted on 1/28/17 at 3:40 am to meeple
Why only white men on the moon?
Space is racist.
Space is racist.
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