re: Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire

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.