“On the 27th of January, 1967, a disaster during a routine test launch at the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex in Florida put America’s space program on hold…”
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Intro
00:34 – Background
03:54 – The Apollo One Disaster
06:25 – The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► “Glass Pond” by Public Memory
► “Magenta” by Sextile
SOURCES:
► “55 Years Ago: The Apollo 1 Fire and its Aftermath” by John Uri, published by NASA, February 2022. Link: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/55-years-ago-the-apollo-1-fire-and-its-aftermath
► “The hell of Apollo 1: Pure oxygen, a single spark, and death in 17 seconds” by Eric Berger, published by Ars Technica, January 2017. Link: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/the-hell-of-apollo-1-pure-oxygen-a-single-spark-and-death-in-17-seconds/
► “‘We have a fire in the cockpit!’ The Apollo 1 disaster 50 years later” by Sarah Larimer, published by The Washington Post, January 2017. Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/26/50-years-ago-three-astronauts-died-in-the-apollo-1-fire/
► “The Apollo 1 tragedy” by David Williams, published by NASA, January 2018. Link: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo1info.html.
CORRECTIONS:
► In this episode I give the date of the moon landing as the 16th of July, 1969. This was actually the date when the moon landing mission launched – the actual landing took place on the 20th of July, 1969.
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Just a sad dumb thing to happen. The redesign and hundreds of changes made after the fire undoubtedly saved lives on our way to the moon.
I’m not saying the moon landing was faked, but in the moon landing footage shown, did anyone else notice you can see straight through the astronauts body?
This was no accident. This was a homicide
more like oops-pollo one
I think these guys were sacrificed. Like, as in demonic sacrifice. It’s just conjecture. Not gonna get into it here.
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As were the Challenger Seven and the Columbia Seven. 🕳🐇
I think it's odd that they continued even though they couldn't find the cause of the smell…
One of the more depressing thoughts I've had about things like this and the memorials left on the moon… One day, hopefully soon – we'll have a representation of humanity on the surface of the Moon. Our human desire to collect and categorize will inevitably lead to someone sometime retrieving these items. I sincerely hope we can set rules long, long before this becomes a problem for monuments, memorials, and eventually gravesites on the Moon. We all know that the Earth is lacking those respectful protections.
When you said nobody had managed to open the door that fast before I thought "is this where the term 'to light a fire under someone's behind' had originated?"
In an interview, Christopher Kraft stated that had it not been for this catastrophe he believed it was quite likely that a man would not have been put on the Moon before 1970. Perhaps even possible that a greater disaster could have happened in deep space and killed the entire program outright.
It was a horrific thing to happen. On the ground of all places. Yet after the funerals as the tears dried up and the sorrow set in, they all lined back up to do it right and got it done.
Moon landing was July 20th. Launch was the 16th. Otherwise, another terrific video.
As far as I’m aware, they didn’t die during a launch. They died during a test in a test capsule in a warehouse. Correct me if I’m wrong
I recall visiting The Kennedy Space Center on the day after the fire, since it was a pre-planned visit.
This was a time, which we will not ever see again, when America was truly populated with the best generation of citizens in its history. With our current population, we have no hope of inventing a row boat from scratch.
They never figured out how to get to the moon and returned safely…the dummy-dum-dums went into orbit because all they figured out at that point was how to return safely from earth’s orbit, and wouldn’t ya know…they did it right at the cusp of timing and rocketed out of the atmosphere and played voice tag w Houston. Eventually pretending that there was a 2 sec. Delay in the chat(radio frequency travel from the moon), while some actors outfitted in space-walk suits trolled around in an air-tight, sealed air hanger that was fashioned to look like the moon and able to be 0 G…they finished the nasa productions and released em not even for 1 second thinking,”i wonder if film making will ever get better than miniature models, and claymation?”. Then the General is behind em loudly and abruptly saying,”IDC WHAT YOU THINK…PROCEED!”
Ill never get how people can ignore safety on things like this
I didn’t know about the patch left on the moon. What an awesome memorial.
Growing up in the 60's, I was a massive fan of Space and Gus Grissom was my #1 hero. Utterly heartbreaking and tragic loss. RIP Gus, Ed, Roger. Heroes all.
NASA killed Gus and the crew because they wouldn't go along with the lies. The murder sent a message to the rest of the NASA astronauts. NASA is a criminal organization that steals 62 million dollars a day from the American tax payer.
I’ve listened to the original recording of these brave mens last moments. The sound of one of the screaming “We’re burning up!” is still burned into my mind.
The Apollo murders, to silence the Hoax production that NASA is.
From not able to open a door to landing a man on the moon. I do not know if I can believe that.
The only thing incorrect in this video is the notion that we put a man on the moon. We never have.
This was no accident…..
It was a disaster,yet a blessing in disguise because the Lunar Module was behind schedule and improvements and upgrades made in the Command Module were made also to the LM.
You keep doing these old disasters like they're aren't any new ones. Like, policy changed blah blah blah. Kinda nefarious? If they changed why is it still happening today? Monetization of pain shouldn't be this easy.
Shame you did not mention that this was claimed to not be an accident. You also did not mention that the astronauts that perished spoke up against NASA and said it was impossible to get to the moon with what they had designed just weeks before the incident. We all know man has never been to the moon so it would be good if you could not only follow the mainstream narrative but also tell the conspiracy "the truth" side as well. I believe it would make a much better video explaining both sides of the story instead of just the NASA press release statement of what happened.
TIL how White died
Here's my position: every large project has a handful of people that will point out a problem in this or that and will find themselves shut down by management who adhere by the Good Enough model. I have no doubt that some technician commented on the cabin doors as being too complicated and was shut down. I have no doubt that some electrician commented on wiring cables and brackets being a mess and some supervisor told him to just tuck it in and get finished. I have no doubt that some engineer questioned the advisability of the module containing such a high oxygen content and was told it was all fine. That's just the way large projects are because the big people don't always listen to the little people, and the little people too often learn to just be quiet. In projects like this astronauts need to perish in order for management to get it right.
whatever came out from NASA, i dont believe even one. not one thing.
The next manned Apollo mission was Apollo 7. Imagine stepping into a control module like that after the last astronauts that tried it got flash fried in a goddamn test run.
Pure Oxygen pumped into a small, locked, pressurized space filled with electrical connections is unforgivable.
Crazy how only two years after we couldn't even get a simulation correct without killing astronauts, we somehow managed to get to the moon on schedule. Very convenient
:40 … The big problem though was that America did not have superiority in space at that time, the Soviets did
The truth is that engineers did not know at the time that when you expose Velcro (crude oil byproduct) to a pure oxygen environment, the static charge in the air is enough to cause it to combust like gasoline, igniting the oxygen, and killing the astronauts.
Which, is what realistically occurred.
The pressure change within the module caused a vacuum effect that kept them from opening the hatch…inward. Inward is why they died. The hatch would've easily blown open if it had been unhinged/unlocked…outward.
I am so impressed by the effort that goes into each video to find actual footage or photos, or a disclaimer when something else is used.
This is professional-level work far beyond what most of your competitors in this genre come up with. 🍻👍