1967: Apollo 1 (NASA)

Apollo 1 is the official name given to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. Its command module (CM-012) was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on 27 January 1967 at Pad 34 (Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral, then known as Cape Kennedy) atop a Saturn IB rocket. The crew onboard were the astronauts selected for the first manned Apollo program mission: Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. All three died in the fire.

Although the ignition source of the fire was never determined, the astronauts' deaths were attributed to a wide range of lethal design hazards in the early Apollo command module. Among these were its use of a highly-pressurized 100%-oxygen atmosphere, many wiring and plumbing flaws, flammable materials in the cockpit, a hatch which might not open at all in an emergency, and the flight suits worn by the astronauts.

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[FagFagBinks]

that's because that's how those special reports were done back then you MORON. That was 1967 not 2009.

[herringfly]

The point the fag is making is that you have to listen to and watch media in the context of its era. It wouldn't have been perceived as disrespectful by anyone at the time. It was used to convey the tragedy of the event.

[skyprop]

@Davidbennett5 Nice



[datzfast]

@etbella3 hense the term lunatics

[datzfast]

@abella 3 you did not answer can you hold a job

[etbella3]

@datzfast The ignorant masses also called Galileo, Copernicus, Isaac Newton and Christopher Columbus "crazy". Columbus was considered crazy for believing the world was round, not flat. Paul McCartney has a youtube site telling humans to "Go Vegan to Save the World". John Lennon's son Julian Lennon made a remarkable movie called "Whaledreamers" which says the world will end if whale-killing does not stop. If I am "crazy", I am in lots of good company.

[etbella3]

@datzfast Obviously, you have never watched the movie Roswell, in which the people who were there in 1947 spoke openly about the messages sent by mental telepathy from the Roswell et's. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal said that the Roswell extraterrestrial he visited at Area 51 "told" him that reinforcements were on their way. Forrestal died in a mysterious fall shortly after he began recording the messages he was receiving from the Roswell et's. Read Jesse Marcel's book The Roswell Legacy.

[datzfast]

@etbella3 you are about as crazy as they come. can you hold a job with that disability?

[datzfast]

i hear the only method to put out a fire was plan A. a water drinking tube, plan B piss on the fire.

[titanic1234561]

@Davidbennett5 i mint be realted to gus grissom so thanks

[TheFOXRAPTOR22]

I wonder if anyone has information where it is stored the capsule of Apollo 1