"officially considered non-hazardous"

[denny]

After a casual remark in the office, I had a quick look for info about Apollo 1 online. I didn't know anything about it until now, so for me the Wikipedia page made quite astounding reading.

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[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

All I knew about it was the reference in Apollo 13, where Jim (Tom Hanks) is talking to his son about things that can go wrong, and how they do lots of tests to make sure everything's safe, and the kid asks about Apollo 1 and he explains that "the door was broken so they couldn't get out when they needed to".

[mr_magicfingers]

You really didn't know about it? I've read so much about it over the years, being a complete space nut. One of the most haunting things was to read it from the perspective of the guys in mission control who could do nothing but listen as they died. So many things were changed after that. When I recover my books I'll lend you 'Failure is not an option' by Gene Krantz, who I had the great pleasure to meet once when I was over in the states. The inside story of mission control from the man who ran it for so many years.

[topbit.livejournal.com]

the wiki page references the HBO mini-series - 'From the Earth to the Moon' - one of the episodes is about the Apollo 1 accident. I've got the box-set, it is a fantastic view as well.