Apollo 1 Fire: January 27, 1967
Apollo 1 Fire: January 27, 1967
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Lest we forget: People can get killed through combined failures of seemly un-related things: Testing under rushed, poorly prepped "live" conditions, flooded oxygen environments, crowded and poorly run electric wires and cables, hatches not easily opened under internal pressure, ....
No design or management decision by itself "wrong" but all of them in sequence with each other? Each decision led to 3 deaths.
No design or management decision by itself "wrong" but all of them in sequence with each other? Each decision led to 3 deaths.
RE: Apollo 1 Fire: January 27, 1967
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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RE: Apollo 1 Fire: January 27, 1967
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RE: Apollo 1 Fire: January 27, 1967
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RE: Apollo 1 Fire: January 27, 1967
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.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
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RE: Apollo 1 Fire: January 27, 1967
RE: Apollo 1 Fire: January 27, 1967
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