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The Apollo Missions
On January 27, 1967, during a practice launch countdown, a flash fire erupted ... did NASA realize that the fire had been a tragedy waiting to happen. After Apollo 1, the space program continued ...
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Apollo’s Worst Day
Studying Apollo 1’s scorched interior, the investigators determined that once the fire began—probably ignited by an electrical arc from damaged wires below and to the left of Grissom’s couch ...
Epic History on MSN10d
Fire on the Launch Pad – How Apollo Survived Its First Great Tragedy
The Apollo Program began not with glory—but with fire. This is the story of how NASA’s most ambitious project nearly ended ...
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NASA's Day of Remembrance: Three tragedies that shook the space program
The Apollo 1 mission was supposed to be the first of ... the charred interior of the Apollo I command module after the flash fire that killed the astronauts. All three men were killed on Jan ...
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Decoding Rediscovered Rope Memory From The Apollo Guidance Computer
On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission ...
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Apollo Program: Tragedy and Triumph – From Fire to the Moon
From the fatal Apollo 1 fire to the triumph of Apollo 8, this is the gripping story of how America reached for the Moon—and refused to give up. Seth Rogen’s Trump joke cut from awards show ...