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Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee :( I do get your point, and it's amazing it worked as well as it did. Space is tough, and things are likely to go wrong
by delibes 8y ago
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee :(
I do get your point, and it's amazing it worked as well as it did. Space is tough, and things are likely to go wrong, just as they still do with civil aviation.
- arethuza 8y agoSilly nitpick: Apollo 1 was a Saturn 1B not a Saturn 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
- sizzzzlerz 8y agoIt also wasn't a "mission". They were performing in a test. And, in any case, the fire wasn't a fault of the rocket; it was a fire in capsule.