A canon event for anyone interested in the history of space travel
by rodan1993
A canon event for anyone interested in the history of space travel
by rodan1993
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So turns out filling a small chamber with very difficult escape and electronics that may spark with pure oxygen is perhaps not the best idea
Context: “Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program,[ the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module. However, the mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27, 1967 killed all three crew members—Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the command module (CM). ”
TLDR: Three astronauts, including one of the original Mercury astronauts and the first American to spacewalk, burned to death in a freak capsule fire during a random test weeks before the launch. They couldn’t open the capsule because the heat pressure basically welded the door shut, and the audio was recorded. My personal advice: Do not listen to it.
Mercury was the first U.S. first space flilgt in 1961
Mmmmmm crispy
Jim Lovell wrote that, according to the procedures for an emergency like this, Grissom and White tried to open the hatch from inside while Chaffee remained in his seat, to not interfere with the other crewmates. This was exactly the situation they found in the burned out capsule: Grissom and White kind of on top of another in front of the hatch and Chaffee right in his seat. Apollo astronauts really where an exceptional class of humankind.
Litany for the Heroic Seven
Yuri, blessed Yuri, who reached for what he did not know,
The Mercury Seven, who stepped into void willingly and submitted to Divine Design,
Vladimir Komarov, who willingly took the place of the blessed,
Apollo 1, who gave their three lives for our past, present, and future, for now, for all time, for eternity,
Soyuz 11, who were buried where we all yearned to go,
The Challenger Seven, who broke the seal of the heavens for us all, a seal for us who broke them,
The Columbia, who returned not in vain,
pray for us.
Remember us in all of our endeavours,
our discoveries,
our challenges,
our enterprise to Actually Realize Their Divine Design.
Pray with us.
O Beloved Architect, Thou of Many Names, hear us in Your Guidance and Design.
Teach us to walk in the Light,
Measure us that we may be fit,
Direct us in that way which we should go.
Unto You we reach like children,
to You we do return.
We came from you, and we will set ourselves down again, according to Thy Divine Design.
Now let us go in peace, one with another,
in our hearts, minds, mights, souls, and strengths,
that we may carry the Burden ever furthermore,
for Your yoke is easy, your burden is Light.
Amen, amin, ameen. [All else is noise.](https://thesolarpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Architecture)
Standing on its…pad was an experience.
People always look at the accomplishments of history. No one ever truly thinks about what it took to get them.
Thats one of the most important lessons I took from my history degree. – if you see something good in history, the road to it is probably paved with horror and blood
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What really blew my mind was finding out the Apollo 1 suits not only were not fire proof, they were actually flammable.