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re: Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire
Posted on 1/27/17 at 12:21 pm to Wally Sparks
Posted on 1/27/17 at 12:21 pm to Wally Sparks
That was one of the bigger "what ifs" in the history of the American space program. Grissom was 100% going to be the commander of the first landing. Ed White would've no doubt commanded a landing mission, too. However, that first command module was a lemon and had a colossal number of issues. I believe it was Frank Borman who said that if the fire hadn't happened and led to a rework of the CM, they probably would've lost a crew in space at a later date.
I highly suggest anyone go read Andrew Chaikin's book A Man On The Moon. It's probably the definitive work on the inner workings of the Apollo program, and gives a mission-by-mission account via the astronauts' own words.
I highly suggest anyone go read Andrew Chaikin's book A Man On The Moon. It's probably the definitive work on the inner workings of the Apollo program, and gives a mission-by-mission account via the astronauts' own words.
This post was edited on 1/27/17 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 1/27/17 at 12:32 pm to Feral
Interesting how those three saved lives later on, especially considering they had access to the wreckage after the fact, unlike if the accident had happened in space.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 11:00 pm to Feral
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That was one of the bigger "what ifs" in the history of the American space program.
Here's a bigger one:
Alan Shepard never gets Meniere's Disease. He was going to command the first Gemini mission with Tom Stafford as his pilot. Had he not come down with that disease, he is the commander of Apollo 1 as well.
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