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We Didn't Start The Fire On The Launchpad
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A quirk of #space #history put all the the anniversary dates for #NASA crewed spaceflight tragedies a few days apart in late January and Feb 1.
• #Apollo1 pad fire: Jan 27, 1967 (59 years, 3 dead)
• Challenger #STS51L launch explosion: Jan 28, 1986 (40 years, 7 dead)
• Columbia #STS107 re-entry breakup: Feb 1, 2003 (23 years, 7 dead)
NASA holds a single "Day of Remembrance" one day each January, which was earlier than the historic dates this time, held Jan 22. https://www.nasa.gov/dor/ -
It's 6:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, 27 January. Godspeed, the crew of Apollo 1 https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-1/ #Apollo1 #NASA ``
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Ahead Of Artemis II Tributes To NASA Astronauts’ Ultimate Sacrifice On Day Of Remembrance; Know Their Last Mission
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NASA’s Day of Remembrance Honors Fallen Heroes of Exploration https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-day-of-remembrance-honors-fallen-heroes-of-exploration-2/ #NASA #NASAHeadquarters #AmesResearchCenter #Apollo1 #JohnsonSpaceCenter #KennedySpaceCenter #LangleyResearchCenter #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #NASACentersFacilities #SpaceShuttle #StennisSpaceCenter
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@nonlinear @sarahjeong.bsky.social
Yes, SpaceX will eventually have a lives-lost incident, and it will be ugly. How the market / investors take it I have no prediction for.
But NASA has had several of those types of accidents over the years, so the waterfall / perfection model isn't immune to them, either. The two shuttle losses were due to bureaucracy that defeated NASA's safety culture, and the Apollo 1 debacle showed that their vaunted safety and technical reviews actually could miss something very important - several things simultaneously, in fact.
I think it's unfair to compare SpaceX's current test-to-failure of Super Heavy and Starship to human-rated missions from anyone. They did the same test-to-failure rapid development with Falcon 9 and Cargo Dragon, leading to Crew Dragon, and they haven't had a life-lost incident yet. They're not deliberately testing-to-failure with humans on board.
#Apollo1 #Shuttle #Columbia #Challenger #NASA #fatality #astronaut
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Expedition 71 Astronauts Visit Elsie Whitlow Stokes CFPCS 🌑🧑🚀
#AndreDouglas #AndyKoy #Apollo1 #Apollo1Monument #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #Artemis #ArtemisII
⏩ 51 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=51&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250419012307
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🕯️ Les astronautes d' #Apollo1 (de bas en haut) Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White II et Roger B. Chaffee posent sur les marches menant au simulateur de mission Apollo au centre spatial Kennedy le 19 janvier 1967.
Le 27 janvier, ils meurent lors d'une répétition générale.https://reves-d-espace.com/apollo-1-le-27-janvier-1967-un-drame-historique/
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Last one that really needs a mention for #TuneTuesday‘s theme #SciFiSongs is the band Public Service Broadcasting, not metal, but pure prog, utilising real sounds from archived recordings to tell story, this album documents the #SpaceRace including an homage to the fatal incident of #Apollo1. It is a great listen for #spaceNerds and #progNerds alike.
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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. Some wires even appeared frayed. As he surveyed the capsule that Grissom, White, and Chaffee were to fly in, Young saw a seemingly endless amount of short circuits ⚡ https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/the-hell-of-apollo-1-pure-oxygen-a-single-spark-and-death-in-17-seconds/
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57 years ago: Jan 27, 1967: #Apollo1 pad fire, 3 dead. Article by @AstronomyMag from November covers the history. Lessons learned turned out to become factors in the later successful #Apollo #Moon landings. https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/apollo-1-tragedy-the-fatal-fire-and-its-aftermath/ #NASA #DayOfRemembrance #space #history
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On this day in 1967 "tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204). The mission was to be the first crewed flight of Apollo, and was scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the command module."
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Aujourd'hui on célèbre le triste anniversaire du drame de #Apollo1
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Outside Moffitt Library on the UC Berkeley campus are several display cases with reprinted newspaper front pages from around the world.
On Fridays, one case is dedicated to a historical event that took place that week. This was yesterday’s, the LA Times front page from January 28, 1967. #apollo1 -
Here is a CBS News special report on the #Apollo1 tragedy 56 years ago #OTD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSWUnWOMdTk - it had aired on the same evening and came with a lot of background information, not on the cause of the accident, of course, but on the #Apollo program in general.
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We remember and will never forget their sacrifice.
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee
True Explorers, True Men, True Patriots, True Americans 🇺🇸
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Watching a town hall at work for today’s #NASA Day of Remembrance.
#Apollo1: January 27, 1967
#Challenger: January 28, 1986
#Columbia: February 1, 2003
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RT @NASAMoon
On today's #Apollo11 anniversary, it’s important to remember the people and missions that paved the way - the successes and the setbacks. From unsuccessful robotic missions to the devastating #Apollo1 fire, #NASARemembers & honors the contributions and sacrifices along the way.
