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re: Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire
Posted on 1/27/17 at 6:37 pm to Choupique19
Posted on 1/27/17 at 6:37 pm to Choupique19
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How did velcro contribute to the fire?
There was a lot of it in the cabin. Velcro in air burns, melts, but does not support combustion. In a pure oxygen atmosphere (at least the velcro of the day) - it exploded. Combined with the other conditions of the test, the velcro, under pressure, in pure O2 with an arc made the fire inevitably uncontainable and fatal.
This post was edited on 1/27/17 at 6:38 pm
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Posted on 1/27/17 at 7:06 pm to Ace Midnight
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50 years ago to the minute - give or take.
At the same time the tragedy occurred, several astronauts were at a White House reception to celebrate a space exploration treaty. We made an agreement with the USSR to immediately repatriate the spacecraft and crew if they landed in the other country's territory.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 8:10 pm to meeple
49th anniversary.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 8:37 pm to Tactical1
50 years later. 50th anniversary.
This post was edited on 1/27/17 at 8:40 pm
Posted on 1/27/17 at 10:28 pm to meeple
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50 years later. 50th anniversary.
That's not how it works.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 10:29 pm to Tactical1
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That's not how it works.
That's exactly how anniversaries work.
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.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 11:08 pm to RollTide1987
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he is the commander of Apollo 1 as well.
This is probably true - but notoriously demanding, he might not have let as much stuff slip by as Gus did - Gus was a great pilot engineer, but he literally had to live down the capsule sinking to the bitter end.
And if Shepard has Apollo 1 (and it been a successful mission) - he would have almost certainly been the first man on the moon (and Ed White would have been his CMP).
This post was edited on 1/27/17 at 11:09 pm
Posted on 1/27/17 at 11:15 pm to Ace Midnight
Updated OP with a good article and photo
Posted on 1/27/17 at 11:22 pm to Ace Midnight
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That's exactly how anniversaries work.
No, it doesn't.
January 27th, 1968 wasn't the 2nd anniversary of the event one year later.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 11:28 pm to Tactical1
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No, it doesn't.
January 27th, 1968 wasn't the 2nd anniversary of the event one year later.
You're right, it was the 1st.
1968 (1st anniv), 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77 (10th anniv)
1978... 1987 (20th)
1988... 1997 (30th)
1998... 2007 (40th)
2008... 2017 (50th)
This post was edited on 1/27/17 at 11:29 pm
Posted on 1/27/17 at 11:34 pm to Tactical1
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January 27th, 1968 wasn't the 2nd anniversary of the event one year later.
For...frick's...sake. If someone gets married on February 7th, 1954 - they celebrate their FIRST fricking anniversary on February 7th, 1955. So, in 2004 - that's the FIFTIETH.
This isn't Mythbusters, baw.
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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