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Some of the critical changes were previously vetoed until Apollo 1 confirmed the worth of doors that opened to outside rather than inside, despite increased wei
by p_l 4y ago
Some of the critical changes were previously vetoed until Apollo 1 confirmed the worth of doors that opened to outside rather than inside, despite increased weight of the sealing mechanism.
- cratermoon 4y agoAnd yet the inward-opening door was itself a response to a near-fatal failure of the hatch on Liberty Bell 7. That almost killed the second American in space, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom. Grissom was one of the three astronauts that died in the Apollo 1 fire.