Apollo 1 Fire: January 27, 1967

"hatches not easily opened under internal pressure"

That's being extremely kind...

Also goes to show that multi-point failures are not uncommon, just as with the Challenger disaster

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Yea, my roomate my sophomore year (which was 1966/67), his fiance's father supplied most of the wiring used in the Apollo capsule and he almost lost his company from the fall-out after the disaster. They never proved that the wiring his company provided contributed to the fire, but there was enough blame to go around so that all of the program suppliers took a hit to one degree or another.

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I have Gus Grissom's and Ed White's autograph. I met them as a little kid in cub scouts, at the Millington Naval Air Station. That fire and their deaths really knocked me for a loop.

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The 3 major NASA accidents all took place in late January, early February.

Apollo 1 - January 27, 1967
Challenger - January 28, 1986
Columbia - Fevbruary 1, 2003

All three were from different reasons and all shutdown space flight while root causes and fixes were applied.

Let's all remember those who lost their lives for the space program.


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It was a very poor decision to use O atmosphere; even the Russians said it was too dangerous (the people who built nukes without containment vessels.

Also goes to show that multi-point failures are not uncommon, just as with the Challenger disaster

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When you mention multi point failure I think about the Piper Alpha. 167 crew dead. A lock-out procedure and a $2 lock could have prevented this.

Bill
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