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I must admit that I first started reading about the details from the Apollo 1 disaster after hearing the Public Service Broadcasting[0] song "Fire In The Cockpi
by schlowmo 10y ago
I must admit that I first started reading about the details from the Apollo 1 disaster after hearing the Public Service Broadcasting[0] song "Fire In The Cockpit" from their "Race for Space" album. The album is a concept album about the American and Soviet space race using samples from various speeches, news shows and NASA public relation stuff.
The band says about the song (which they never play at their live shows):
> "The fire on Apollo 1 was such an important and terrible chapter in the program that it felt wrong to leave it out of our version of the story. [...] We wanted to treat it with respect and not come up with some trite or overly emotional song, so we just kept it very, very simple and tried to pay a quiet, but terrifying tribute to those three men."[0]
There is so much historic stuff in this album that I can highly recommend it to anyone interested in the history of space missions.
[0] http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/ http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/
[1] http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=37821 http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=37821