Apollo 1: The Fire That Saved Apollo
Published · 40 min
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On 27 January 1967, three astronauts were sealed inside their Apollo spacecraft on Pad 34 for a routine launch rehearsal. Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were on a rocket with no fuel, in a test nobody had classed as dangerous. When fire broke out, the only way out was a hatch that opened inward, against the pressure.
Narration in this film is a synthetic, cloned voice. Sources and image credits are in the YouTube description.
Chapters
- 00:00 27 January 1967
- 00:59 Who Were the Three Men in Spacecraft 012?
- 05:33 Why Was the First Apollo Spacecraft in Trouble?
- 10:59 What Happened on Pad 34?
- 16:47 Could Anyone Have Reached Them?
- 20:47 Who Was to Blame?
- 26:21 How Do You Rebuild a Spacecraft?
- 31:40 Did the Fire Save Apollo?
- 36:00 How Do We Remember Them?
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