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100% oxygen at turned the crew of Apollo 1 into ash. It makes stuff like concrete and aluminum as flammable as wood.
by throwayyy479087 4y ago
100% oxygen at turned the crew of Apollo 1 into ash. It makes stuff like concrete and aluminum as flammable as wood.
- doctor_eval 4y agoThat was 100% oxygen at 100% atmospheric pressure. The lunar module was 100% oxygen at 5 PSI (atmospheric pressure is about 14 PSI. I’m not a chemist but I think it’s not the percentage, but the number of atoms that counts. https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/CSM08_LM_&_SLA_Overview_pp61-68.pdf https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/CSM08_LM_&_SLA_Overview_pp61-6...
- russdill 4y agoThe Apollo engineers knew this and it factored into their choice. For whatever reason not enough consideration was given to full up ground tests where the same atmosphere would be used, but at 1atm.
- flangola7 4y ago100 O2 at regular or reduced pressure?