The Apollo 1 crew, from left to right, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom. College Park contains a good deal more than just NACA and Apollo 1 and Challenger. Apollo 1 Tragedy BREVARD COUNTY CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - On Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204). Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, Anyone know for sure? Fellow spaceflight veteranEd White, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, was the first American to make a spacewalk, on Gemini 4 in 1965. Jim Gleaves, the lead technician, ran towards the spacecraft to try to open the hatch and get the crew out. The Smithsonian - and for that matter certain divisions within NASA - have tried to have the capsule moved and/or restored (to its post-fire but pre-deconstruction condition) over the years but have run into various objections (including by one of the Apollo 1 families). To save on labor costs, North American had used machines to bundle the miles of wires that snaked through the Apollo spacecraft, the arrangement of which seemed arbitrary to Young. That doesn't tell us where these pics came from tho. But his time in the military gave him valuable skills in engineering and maintenance, which opened the door for him to work at the Martin Marietta Corporation, a company that built rockets and later became Lockheed Martin. The only fire-related incident in the USSR space program was also during training but only one guy and I don't think he was wearing a spacesuit. The crew of Apollo 1 crosses the gantry to the spacecraft on the day of the fire, January 27, 1967. There are some wonderful textual records in Fort Worth (from JSC). Though they eventually pried the hatches off, it was too late. New York, I don't think the Apollo Command Module would even fit inside the main doors of the blockhouse (I'll have to recheck on that along with the service entry area of the control center), as I would hate to see it disassembled in pieces just to accomplish such a feat. This is the Apollo 1 Suit https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Apollo_1_-_Chaffee_in_Apollo_Block_I_space_suit.jpg. The pics are indeed the ones I found, so this means that they appeared a lot sooner than I thought, TinEye only showed as early as 2008. That said, for circumstantial reasons I dont think were looking at the remains of the astronauts; these could be empty suits that were burned in an unrelated accident. It would be nice, in my opinion, to get the first manned Apollo ship out of Langley's storage and somehow display the craft in the most delicate, tasteful, and appropriate means that could make everyone happy. They do seem consistent with the way the fire spread tho: it started under Grissom's (on the right) seat and on those images the suits are mainly burned in the lower area. Decades later, NASA recalls the Apollo 1 incident every January in an annualDay of Remembrance. Rightly or wrongly, we thought we were going to be good enough to compensate for whatever it was, Cunningham explained. Then the communications system acted up. Grissom, White, and Chaffee did not die in vain, Tribe said. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. And I heard a couple months ago that the Langley storage had being cleaned out, and everything shipped down to the Cape to be stored with the Challenger debris in the LC34 silos? Most material from the late 80's and older is held at the archives, either in . Any idea why they discontinued the use of the "Block 1" helmet after Apollo 1? Moreover, both of his ears were bleeding and his face and scrotum were lacerated. Some eight seconds later, Grissom could be heard shouting. Six rescuers tried to save the Apollo 1 astronauts from a suffocating, fiery death. The nation's Moon landing program suffered a shocking setback on Jan. 27, 1967, with the deaths of Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. The viewer would look through glass and observe the entire spacecraft from a top angle. Long story that I do not want to discuss with the public. "Nobody really said anything for 15 minutes, until they got the hatch open. As he surveyed the capsule that Grissom, White, and Chaffee were to fly in, Young saw a seemingly endless amount of short circuits. Deke Slayton, who oversaw crew selections at NASA and was present for the test, could see white flames in a closed-circuit television monitor pointing toward the spacecraft. It was a memorial to the astronauts who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration, who paved the way for crews like Apollo 15 to visit the moon, and return safely back home. Remembering the Apollo 1 Crew NASA The prime crew members of NASA's first manned Apollo Space Flight are pictured during training in Florida on March 21, 1966. Should we be surprised that it appears the Air Force either chose not to mention or simply overlooked the gash in its official autopsy report on Chaffee? He joined the Navy in 1941 after graduating from high school, and binged on bananas in order to gain enough weight to enlist. Some wires even appeared frayed. We're burning up!'" ", With communications problems dragging on, the practice countdown was held. The agency also met Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon in 1969, during Apollo 11. I attempted to discuss with NASA a method of drying the suits out by using a centrifuge, but they were not interested and told me to mind my own business. This page may contain sensitive or adult content that's not for everyone. Astronauts Virgil I. As a boy, Henry would pick cotton or sell boiled peanuts at baseball games to help make ends meet. But, infamously, a fire in the pure oxygen environment of the Apollo 1 spacecraft could not be compensated foreven by arguably NASA's best test pilot, Gus Grissom, veteran astronaut Ed White, and rookie Roger Chaffee. 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January 27, 1967, was a Friday, the end of another grueling week ramping up to the Apollo I launch date, mere weeks away: February 21, 1967. "How the hell could we have put three guys into those conditions?". NASA, today, describes this role as having the "utmost importance," because QC inspectors "support the space program and safeguard the lives of our astronauts.". One idea that we were kicking around was displaying it out at launch complex #34 directly below the opening of the launch pedestal below ground level in the equipment room. The suits are in "poor" condition thanks to NASA. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, Yeah now that you mention it it seems unlikely that NASA would take pics with the corpses still inside. It was even discussed years/decades ago about the possibility of placing Apollo 1 inside 34's blockhouse, under the pedestal at the pad, or somewhere nearby. The U.S. Senate conducted its own investigation and hearings andpublished recommendationsof its own, while saying NASA's failure to report its problems with Apollo "was an unquestionably serious dereliction. Gus Grissom taught NASA a hard lesson: You can hurt yourself in the ocean. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Apollo_1_-_Chaffee_in_Apollo_Block_I_space_suit.jpg. Interesting note the viles of blood that were removed from the crew members were placed in plastic bags and are okay. Posts: 1376From: ridgefield, ctRegistered: May 2002. "We had it pushed down enough where we could barely see inside the command module and there was a lot of smoke and heat coming from the inside of the spacecraft. Exterior of Apollo/Saturn 204 spacecraft at White Room of Complex 34, Cape Kennedy, Fla. As a result, everyone on the Apollo team felt a personal responsibility to put in marathon time. He pulled off his jacket to offer to another man to cover his face. This is where the tangled bodies of Grissom and White were found still reaching for the hatch and fused together to the floor of the spacecraft and fused to the mattress pad. On that mission, Mercury's Liberty Bell 7, the hatch door blew for unknown reasons upon splashdown. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Fellow astronauts (left to right) Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Gordon Cooper, and John Young serve as escorts. Hence the introduction of beta cloth into the Apollo program. those aren't the apollo suits those are the Navy Mark IV suits from Mercury. Grissom and his crew were gambling that the growing list of problems with the spacecraft would somehow be fixed in time for the February launch.. The Lincoln chair has not been restored. Gemini 3 and Gemini 4 missions before receiving . I find it unlikely that their bodies were not removed before these photos were taken, but its possible their faces could have imprinted on the glass somehowresting on the glass while ash accumulated around it, or something of that naturein a way that would have left an impression even after the remains were removed. We keep his medal, for exceptional bravery, in a humble wooden frame. NASA published the results of an official investigation of the Apollo fire in 1968. That would also explain why those images are in black and white and of lower quality. Engineering changes were still in progress as NASA prepared for the countdown test. Credits: NASA Apollo 1 Tragedy Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204). Then there was the hatch itself: designed to open inward (nearly impossible to do if the cabin pressure increases), and three-layered, making it a slow, burdensome process to open, and delaying the rescue efforts. NASA Apollo Mission Apollo-1-- Report Title Page. Again, all of this is pure speculation since I the quality is so crappy, I'm not sure about anything I think I see on those photographs. Image: NASA. To reach it, you had to take an elevator up 200 feet to level A8, where an open air platform connected the control tower to the white room. Posts: 1051From: Messina, Sicilia, ItaliaRegistered: Jun 2004. Flammable items were removed. Ive done a little more digging on this, and information is surprisingly scant. They do seem consistent with the way the fire spread tho: it started under Grissom's (on the right) seat and on those images the suits are mainly burned in the lower area. The Apollo 1 crew two days before the fire. The more likely problem is that once the hoses became separated from the spacesuits, they could have distributed additional oxygen into the cabin to help keep the fire alive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Posts: 43576From: Houston, TXRegistered: Nov 1999. Posts: 3811From: Midwest, USARegistered: Jul 2005, Posts: 3413From: NetherlandsRegistered: Nov 2001, Posts: 2983From: Merritt Island, Florida, BrevardRegistered: Mar 2001. 55 TheNightBench 6 yr. ago Did this really happen? From left to right are astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Known as "the patch that never flew," this mission patch was designed by the first Apollo astronauts. Somewhere on the surface of the moon today, this plaque still sits, with eight names carved into it. Rogers was a veteran who served in WWII and the Korean War. But in my family home, in Canada, there's a memorial of our own: to Henry, and to the men he tried to save. The white room attached to a swing arm that connected it to the spacecraft. Heres how it works. I tend to spend much more time on the 4th floor in the film archives than in the photo archives. As a formal investigation into the fire would conclude, the pressure vessel on the spacecraft had ruptured, and the fire exploded onto the swing arm, blasting Gleaves back against the door and flooding the roomand the menwith fresh flames and thick smoke. It seems to pop up more often on forums or amateur-ish websites. Original: Jan 26, 2017. And in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 secretly carried a small statue of a fallen astronaut, and a plaque, to the lunar surface. Posts: 1966From: Atlanta, GARegistered: Feb 2007, Posts: 3160From: Belfast, United KingdomRegistered: Feb 2002, Posts: 503From: Highland Heights, KYRegistered: Feb 2003, Posts: 239From: Sacramento, CARegistered: Oct 2004. Fifty years ago, Henry Rogers stepped off an elevator into an inferno. Some in the Astronaut Office were skeptical that Grissom's reputation would recover (many believed Grissom blew the hatch; he swore he didn't). REPORT OF. Join the Ars Orbital Transmission mailing list to get weekly updates delivered to your inbox. "The hatch was loose but they couldn't get it out," Henry said in his testimony as part of the year-long investigation into the fire. Whilst I have read about the oxygen hoses burning through and the crew being asphyxiated, I've never heard anything like that before about the Apollo 1 tragedy. The five men engaged the only two fire extinguishers on that level to douse the flames closest to the hatch. "Within minutes we knew they were dead, and we were in deep, serious trouble. They think Grissom tried to depressurise the cabin to dampen the fire and in his haste, broke one of the door valves. Meanwhile, Don Babbitt, the pad leader for North American Aviationthe company that made the Apollo spacecraftmoved to pick up the phone and call for help. Spacecraft 12 was to have flown on the Apollo/Saturn 204 mission (later known as Apollo 1). Image: NASA, "What I remember is that they were really pushing people, and dad was working a lot of overtime," Ron Rogers, my uncle and Henry's youngest son, told me. Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science since 2015. The Apollo 1 space vehicle (initally referred to as Spacecraft 12) is hoisted to the top of the gantry at Pad 34 during the Apollo/Saturn Mission 204 (later known as the Apollo 1 flight) erection. Ultimately, however, the Apollo 1 fire probably saved NASAs lunar ambitions. My theory it that if those picture were indeed taken by Nasa, the person who published them stole them. As materials inside the spacecraft were incinerated, they gave off toxic fumes. The real condition of the astronauts was not known to the public until later that evening and even then, no details were given other than the three astronauts were killed in a fire on Pad 34. The Apollo 1 spacesuits are still stored in the sealed storage facility at Langley. Of course such a display would require even more money and more space. I recall that none of the other crews ever wore them after the fire. Grissom, White, and Chaffee enter the Apollo Command Module during training in the days before the fire. Shouting through the noise, Grissom vented: "How are we going to get to the moon if we can't talk between two or three buildings? We never really had any doubts. Senior Producer Steve Spaleta oversees our space videos, with Diana Whitcroft as our Social Media Editor. This could have come from the fact that Gus was under his seat and Ed had slipped off the center seat and was down in the open space between the seat and airframe where he had slumped over. He was a proud member of the team that put the first human on the moon. Needless to say they were just as upset with NASA as I was. It was a horrific way to go nonetheless, and the waves of grief affected everyone in the program. All crewed missions would use the Thorough protocols were implemented for documenting spacecraft construction and maintenance. This may sound like an obvious mistake, but as Cox and Murray point out in their chronicle of the Apollo program, pure oxygen is necessary in orbit. Pad 34 might be a hard place to display it, with it being on the Cape Canaveral side, but maybe a location at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex near the Space Mirror could be possible site. Immediately after the Apollo 1 fire, to avoid appearance of a conflict of interest, NASA Administrator James E. Webb asked President Lyndon B. Johnson to allow NASA to handle the investigation according to its established procedure, promising to be truthful in assessing blame, and to keep the appropriate leaders of Congress informed. I don't agree that the inner pressure hull should be left out. Theres an identifying patch on the left suit. In 1944, they were married and two years later, at the tender age of 23, Henry became a fatherthough he was away on duty at the time. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. The flammable oxygen environment for ground tests was replaced with a nitrogen-oxygen mix. But the space race with the USSR, combined with Kennedy's public goal of a moon landing, created a growing sense of urgency to advance the Apollo program at a breakneck pace. Henry Rogers, with wife Doreen and sons Randy and Tim (in arms), circa 1951. No one seems to know where the main hull of 014 went to, but it is possible that it was also shipped back to Downy, California, since it still belonged to NAA and had not been accepted by NASA. "As he turned, there was a venting sound, a sort of WHOOOOSH!, followed by what seemed to Babbitt to be a sheet of flame shooting from the spacecraft and arching over his head, charring the papers on his desk," Catherine Bly Cox and Charles A. Murray recount in their seminal history on the Apollo program, Apollo: Race to the Moon. If it is going to be on display it should be done tastefully with closed hatches and blacked out windows. . To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. You look at the crew photos of Apollo 1 in front of the Service Structure, Gantry and blockhouse and the place looked like a beehive of activity back in the day. However the document doesn't contain any pictures with the corpses. As such, after the Apollo 1 fire, many items were re-designed to reduce their flammability including the spacesuits. The team had spent the day conducting a standard last check of all the systems called a "plugs out" test. From the time of the first announcement of fire to the pressure vessel blowing out, a mere 18 seconds elapsed: just enough time for Henry to ascend up the tower. Many of these items were then used as spare parts on Spacecraft 017 and 020 (unmanned), or shipped back to Downy since there was nothing wrong with them and would not be needed in the future. This was the result of NASA shutting off the nitrogen purge after the ten year mandate ended. For the time being I consider it's fake, but if it is then I'd like to find who created it and for what purpose. For the same reason, Russian media would show cosmonauts being carried out of reentry capsules because they couldn't walk after so much time in zero gravity, while America wouldn't. The mission was to be the first crewed flight of Apollo, and was scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967. I've heard it has been released in its entirety before, but I had never heard it all before. The "fallen astronaut" plaque and statue, as photographed on the lunar surface. It was 6:31 p.m. on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire started in Apollo 1 killing . The aft heatshield stainless-steel face sheets were melted and eroded. profile | register | preferences | faq | search, Posts: 43576From: Houston, TXRegistered: Nov 1999, Posts: 1332From: Staten Island, NYRegistered: Jun 2007, Posts: 1624From: Bethpage, N.Y.Registered: Jul 2002, Posts: 168From: LondonRegistered: Jan 2007. More likely to be Russian cosmonauts. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. There, at a five and dime store, he met a fiery redhead Canadian girl from across the river in Windsor, working as a cashier. Our current news team consists of Editor-in-Chief Tariq Malik; Editor Hanneke Weitering, Senior Space Writer Mike Wall; Senior Writer Meghan Bartels; Senior Writer Chelsea Gohd, Senior Writer Tereza Pultarova and Staff Writer Alexander Cox, focusing on e-commerce. Eric Berger In some cases, it looks like it is a photograph taken of a photograph, like here . Image: NASA. The crew of Apollo 1: Veteran astronaut Gus Grissom (left), first American spacewalker Ed White, and rookie Roger Chaffee. After inspection of the craft Nasa concluded that the fire broke out under astronautGus Grissom's seat. Now getting a chance to fly after five years in the program, he said, "I think it will be a lot of fun.". Dr. Berry's reports were also ruined by high atmospheric moisture. I think that when Cernan described what they found, it was to counteract a news release issued shortly after the fire from an unidentifiable source by a newspaper that said the astronauts had been completely burned up. The Apollo 1 crew, from left to right, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom. I feel that the Apollo 1 capsule (or what is left of it) could and should be tastefully displayed. That being said, as long as we can't retrace the exact origin, we won't know for sure. All three astronauts had died. To display the capsule would help present and future generations be able to see and understand the sacrifices that were made with the Apollo 1 tragedy and what was learned to prevent it from happening again. One thing in particular that caught my attention was the obvious pathway of the fire and the vast difference in temperature ranges, and extent of damage. Press J to jump to the feed. Physicians addedthat the crew died from smoke inhalation and almost certainly fell unconscious. Grissom's coffin. But he never spoke about the fire at home with his family. However, Grissom successfully commanded the first Gemini flight, Gemini 3, and was selected to do the same for Apollo. "He was now nearly blind from the acrid smoke. Also, the center and left-hand suits, while obviously fire-damaged, are in better condition than I would expect the Apollo suits to be in given the descriptions provided of what happened to the astronauts. Though it was mostly business as usual, there had been some issues with the communications connections. Rogers and five other men including Clemmons, put their lives at risk to try to rescue Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, the three astronauts trapped inside the burning spacecraft. Yet even amid this hectic schedule, engineers with the agency confidently conducted final design reviews on the Apollo capsule. As a quality control inspector, Henry's job was to make sure materials and elements of the spacecraft were up to snuff, to report any damage or defects, and to look for possible improvements. When Henry arrived, without hesitation, he plunged into the fiery chaos unfolding in front of him. This blocked about half of the hatch opening, restricting our entry into the craft until we could get the hatch to finish falling. The fire forced a hard reset of a space program that had been rushing headlong toward the Moon, but had lost its way due to overconfidence. The ambitious human spaceflight program had been launched in response to President John F. Kennedy's goal, set in 1961, of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the decade. "I heard their screaming voices in the cockpit of the spacecraft, Kraft told Ars Technica. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Ars Technica Addendum (effective 8/21/2018). As NASA reports, on January 27, 1967, a fire during a preflight test for the Apollo 1 mission took the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. His autopsy report painted a gruesome sight of what occurred to his body when the plane crashed. Happier days: in June 1966, the Apollo 1 crew practices water egress procedures with a full scale boilerplate model of the spacecraft. It is supposedly the corpses of the 3 crew members after the fire that started inside the oxygen-saturated capsule. 'S seat NASA concluded that the Apollo 1: veteran astronaut Gus Grissom a display would even. Were re-designed to reduce their flammability including the spacesuits Gus Grissom, White, and John Young serve as.. 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