#apollo1

Last one that really needs a mention for #TuneTuesday‘s theme #SciFiSongs is the band Public Service Broadcasting, not metal, but pure prog, utilising real sounds from archived recordings to tell story, this album documents the #SpaceRace including an homage to the fatal incident of #Apollo1. It is a great listen for #spaceNerds and #progNerds alike.

https://album.link/nl/i/947928979

To save on labor costs, North American had used machines to bundle the miles of #wires that snaked through the #Apollo spacecraft, the arrangement of which seemed arbitrary to Young. Some wires even appeared frayed. As he surveyed the capsule that Grissom, White, and Chaffee were to fly in, Young saw a seemingly endless amount of short circuits https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/the-hell-of-apollo-1-pure-oxygen-a-single-spark-and-death-in-17-seconds/

#Apollo1 #FlammableWires

#OnThisDay, January 27, in 1967, a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test killed all three crew members of moon mission Apollo 1, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee (depicted in From the Earth to the Moon, s01e02, "Apollo 1", 1998)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #TodayInHistory #Histodons #Apollo1 #FromTheEarthToTheMoon

57 years ago: Jan 27, 1967: #Apollo1 pad fire, 3 dead. Article by @AstronomyMag from November covers the history. Lessons learned turned out to become factors in the later successful #Apollo #Moon landings. https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/apollo-1-tragedy-the-fatal-fire-and-its-aftermath/ #NASA #DayOfRemembrance #space #history

Aujourd'hui on célèbre le triste anniversaire du drame de #Apollo1
https://reves-d-espace.com/apollo-1-le-27-janvier-1967-un-drame-historique/

Good call by #NASA The #Artemis program doesn't need to follow #Apollo1 that closely. #TIME

https://youtu.be/PAvJ550dlc0?si=35CiE3TEHhRCKZjo

@Otttoz già. #apollo1 ha insegnato alla NASA che in un ambiente pressurizzato con ossgeno puro l'infiammabilità dei materiali aumenta drasticamente. Hanno imparato. E grazie a ciò, per esempio, la riaccensione, al rientro, del computer di #apollo13 andò bene nonostante la grande quantità di condensa che si era formata.

This is Launch Complex 34 at Cape #Canaveral Air Force Station.
During a test of the #Apollo command and service modules and a Saturn I rocket in preparation for the Apollo 1 mission, a small spark from an unknown origin, combined with pure oxygen environment, allowed a fire to break out and essentially used all the oxygen in the combustion reaction, killing mission commander Gus Grissom, senior pilot Ed White, and pilot Roger Chaffee nearly instantly.
LC-34 was abandoned-in-place after the last Saturn launch was decommissioned.
It remains as a #memorial.

Get a print or other merchandise at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/lc-34-launch-table-heron-and-fox.html

#Apollo1, #LC34, #SaturnI, #CapeCanaveral, #CCAFS, #Photography.

Outside Moffitt Library on the UC Berkeley campus are several display cases with reprinted newspaper front pages from around the world.
On Fridays, one case is dedicated to a historical event that took place that week. This was yesterday’s, the LA Times front page from January 28, 1967. #apollo1

Here is a CBS News special report on the #Apollo1 tragedy 56 years ago #OTD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSWUnWOMdTk - it had aired on the same evening and came with a lot of background information, not on the cause of the accident, of course, but on the #Apollo program in general.

We remember and will never forget their sacrifice.
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee
True Explorers, True Men, True Patriots, True Americans
#Apollo1

#NASA's most difficult #history have anniversaries in the upcoming days.
56 years ago: Jan 27, 1967 #Apollo1 fire on pad (3 lost)
37 years ago: Jan 28, 1986 #STS51L Challenger explosion (7 lost)
20 years ago: Feb 1, 2003 #STS107 Columbia re-entry breakup (7 lost)
#space

@NASAArtemis: "As we launch into this new era of human spaceflight and #Artemis missions to the Moon, we must never forget the astronauts and others who gave their lives to further the cause of exploration and discovery. #NASARemembers [image]"

#Apollo1 #Challenger #Columbia

https://nitter.poast.org/NASAArtemis/status/1618613828295577600

Watching a town hall at work for today’s #NASA Day of Remembrance.

#Apollo1: January 27, 1967

#Challenger: January 28, 1986

#Columbia: February 1, 2003

RT @NASAMoon
On today's #Apollo11 anniversary, it’s important to remember the people and missions that paved the way - the successes and the setbacks. From unsuccessful robotic missions to the devastating #Apollo1 fire, #NASARemembers & honors the contributions and sacrifices along the way.