As a backup crew member for the initial Apollo mission, Cunningham recalled clambering into the first Apollo capsule on Jan. 26, 1967 for some pre-flight work. I don't agree that the inner pressure hull should be left out. Concerning the bones I think I can see a couple tibia bones on the lower right of the middle pic but that's about all. Image: NASA, "As members of the launch team, we felt we had lost three of our own and we felt very responsible," Tribe, the propulsion manager, told me. It wasn't nearly as big a deal as something such as the Apollo 1 crew photos, but the restriction was missed in processing the request. When Henry arrived, without hesitation, he plunged into the fiery chaos unfolding in front of him. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. And what was the purpose of keeping this blood? Posts: 3811From: Midwest, USARegistered: Jul 2005. McDonnell Aircraft had won NASA contracts to construct the Mercury and Gemini capsules, but the Apollo award went to North American Aviation. I think the same could be said for the conditions of LC-19 and LC-14 as well. 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. Space.com is the premier source of space exploration, innovation and astronomy news, chronicling (and celebrating) humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier. It also honors the Challenger and Columbia crews, who died in 1986 and 2003, respectively. 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. Thousands of people. There seem to be a visor laid next to the helmet, like it was just burned so bad that it wouldn't hold on it so they just took the pic with pic lying next to the corpse. "He could have gotten back on the elevator and escaped to safety, knowing the dangers involved, but he didn't hesitate," the late Stephen Clemmons, a spacecraft mechanical technician who was also there that night, wrote in a 2004 essay. Apollo 1 was the first - and more would follow over the years. The prime crew members of NASA's first manned Apollo Space Flight are pictured during training in Florida on March 21, 1966. Yet even amid this hectic schedule, engineers with the agency confidently conducted final design reviews on the Apollo capsule. They grew up poor; Henry once had to wear his sister's old shoes because the family couldn't afford new ones for him. But that may be an impossibility -- at this time -- as some family members would not approve any such action, and not to mention mixed reactions within NASA/NASM as well. 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. The flammable oxygen environment for ground tests was replaced with a nitrogen-oxygen mix. NASA. 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. But in my family home, in Canada, there's a memorial of our own: to Henry, and to the men he tried to save. Photos were taken of the bodies, but I couldn't find anything indicating more were taken after they were removed from the Command Module. Posts: 851From: Celina, OhioRegistered: Feb 2000. Posts: 851From: Celina, OhioRegistered: Feb 2000. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. These records and items need to be preserved for history. The black channel tapes of the fire itself will NEVER be released to anyone including the immediate families - thanks to Betty Grissom. Read our affiliate link policy. He was a proud member of the team that put the first human on the moon. At least one of them does not. In the 51 years since, NASA has flown just one other crewed spacecraft: the Space Shuttle. About the skull, I'm not sure It's reflected light. 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. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. "All of a sudden someone, we believe it was Grissom, said 'fire,'" John Tribe, the spacecraft propulsion manager for Apollo, who was in the control room in a separate building that night, told me. Exterior of Apollo/Saturn 204 spacecraft at White Room of Complex 34, Cape Kennedy, Fla. In it he spoke about the Apollo 1 fire and mentioned that during the fire one of the crews oxygen hoses had burnt through and "whipped" around the cockpit "like an acetylene torch" and had "nearly beheaded one of . Happier days: in June 1966, the Apollo 1 crew practices water egress procedures with a full scale boilerplate model of the spacecraft. Nevertheless, although North American had much experience with airplanes, it had little with actual spacecraft. It seems to pop up more often on forums or amateur-ish websites. We pay for your stories! "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. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, NASA was forced to ship everything back to Langley. https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/apollo-1-tragedy/6/. "I heard them scream get me out of here. Apollo 1's Command Module, a day after the fire. This page may contain sensitive or adult content that's not for everyone. You're right about last part: those suits don't look like they've been through the hell that took place inside the Apollo 1 command module. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). The suits are in "poor" condition thanks to NASA. 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. Hence the introduction of beta cloth into the Apollo program. The interior of the Command Module shows the effects of the intense heat of the flash fire which killed the prime crew during a routine training exercise. With only a third of the cabin pressure as Earth, normal airwhich is about 78 percent nitrogen and 20 percent oxygenwouldn't be capable of sustaining life while in orbit. Posts: 1292From: Rochester, NY, USARegistered: Mar 2002, Posts: 953From: South Bend, INRegistered: Apr 2002, Posts: 30From: Orlando, FloridaRegistered: Oct 2005. We never really had any doubts. On a gray January afternoon in Houston, Walt Cunningham leaned into his Eames Lounge Chair and clasped his hands behind his head, the better to try and bend his thoughts back across five decades. NSFW tag please, I dont even subscribe and this is showing up in my feed. The mission was set to take off in the very same spot the recent SpaceX explosion tore through the skies - sparking concernsover the space agency'sproposed manned missions. The USS Arizona is on display, so why not the complete Apollo 1 spacecraft? The next transmission comes through as a muffled"I'm getting out" before screams can be heard. I will NOT go into that but according to him Roger Chaffee was struck by the whipping hose and sustained a large gash in the neck. 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). However, there are extensive photo holdings at NARA Atlanta (From MSFC and KSC). NY 10036. Gus Grissom taught NASA a hard lesson: You can hurt yourself in the ocean. It was really hard for me to get an idea of where everything once stood as it would have for Apollo 1 and 7. NSFW Remains of astronaut Gus Grissom after the Apollo 1 disaster - The whole crew is burned alive during a training rehearsal. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. But the sheer horror and emotional intensity of having three colleaguesfor many in the program, three close friendssuffocate in a burning capsule while scrambling to save them, hasn't been as well preserved. Then the communications system acted up. The nation's Moon landing program suffered a shocking setback on Jan. 27, 1967, with the deaths of Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. It became apparent that extensive fusion of suit material to melted nylon from the spacecraft would make removal very difficult. My grandpa was one of them. 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. "I have a personal feeling that, without their loss in 1967, we might not have gotten to the moon, literally, because what we learned from that accident made a safer program," he told me. Engineering changes were still in progress as NASA prepared for the countdown test. Both were so hoarse they couldn't talk.". Any thoughts? Known as "the patch that never flew," this mission patch was designed by the first Apollo astronauts. Knowing full well the premium on weight in a spacecraft launched from Earth to the Moon in a single stack, managers looked for every opportunity to trim mass from the capsule and three-stage rocket. 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. 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. Flammable items were removed. Posts: 2458From: U.K.Registered: Jul 2009. The skull on the right-hand suit is actually an effect created by reflected light on the helmet, and I dont see any bones. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Most of these copies of the recordings end just before the accident. Thing is, I never found the origin of this picture. The early astronauts trusted that they could handle any situation that came their way. I'm sure it was a calculated risk for them to be on Apollo 1.0 instead of Apollo 15.0 or something. There are some wonderful textual records in Fort Worth (from JSC). Decades later, NASA recalls the Apollo 1 incident every January in an annualDay of Remembrance. The medical facility is less than 2 miles from Pad 34 where the tragic fire took place. Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science since 2015. The viles of blood, are they also in the storage down at Langley? Yeah now that you mention it it seems unlikely that NASA would take pics with the corpses still inside. The Apollo 1 crew, from left to right, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom. 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. These are pictures taken of the astronauts just after the Apollo 1 tragedy on January 27, 1967. I knew it when I saw it, and I saw it in spades in the command module, he wrote. The individuals are (L to R) Dr. Robert C. Seamans, NASA Deputy Administrator; James E. Webb, NASA Administrator; Dr. George E. Mueller, Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, and Maj. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips, Apollo Program Director. 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.. And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: community@space.com. Posts: 225From: Lake Orion, MichiganRegistered: Feb 2006, Posts: 270From: College Station, TXRegistered: Apr 2003, Posts: 101From: Bryan, Texas USARegistered: Jun 2005, Posts: 1624From: Bethpage, N.Y.Registered: Jul 2002, Posts: 2141From: Essex, UKRegistered: Jul 2001, Copyright 2020 collectSPACE.com All rights reserved. Grissom's coffin. "And then there was a scream. I assume that since you said you didn't have a wish to view them that you had not seen these particular photos. In some places it was hot enough to melt stainless steel, and yet in other places blue velcro (Grissom's and Chaffee's side) was not damaged at all. If the capsule was to be displayed in the future, like Rick, I don't think at all it should be restored, No, keep her as she was after the fire investigation and block out the windows. My theory it that if those picture were indeed taken by Nasa, the person who published them stole them. They were never hermetically sealed like the interior spacecraft components were. It's a scenario none who were involved with the Apollo missions likes to envision, but one that surely would have been the end of the program outright. Apollo 1 Crew NASA On Jan. 27, 1967, NASA experienced its first space disaster - the deaths of three astronauts during a training excercise for the Apollo 1 mission. The legacy of the Apollo fire of 1967 is preserved in history books and lengthy documentaries. This well regarded company had earned plaudits for the X-15, a hypersonic, rocket-powered aircraft that had flown as high as 107.8km in 1963, crossing the threshold into outer space. 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. imgur 255 55 55 comments Top Add a Comment ctrum69 6 yr. ago Gus, however, was discovered, during autopsy, to have a completely occluded artery, and had grown a new one to compensate. Ad Choices. According to the 200-page report, Grissom, Chaffee, and White had died of cardiac arrest from inhaling too much carbon monoxide and falling asleep. Some eight seconds later, Grissom could be heard shouting. I recall that none of the other crews ever wore them after the fire. The first manned mission an Earth-orbiting mission was originally designated Apollo Saturn-204, or AS-204, but was later renamed Apollo 1. Now getting a chance to fly after five years in the program, he said, "I think it will be a lot of fun.". Suits don't look right, helmets don't look right. Although the mission was not officially named Apollo 1 until after the fire, this was the patch they intended to carry into space. The Apollo 1 crew commander,Virgil "Gus" Grissom, was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War. The analyses we performed at Bell Labs of the Apollo 1 tape did not provide definitive answers. But we didnt expect it to be on the ground.. But while he was in the elevator, a fire had broken out in the spacecraft cabin. We always expected that wed lose at least one mission before we landed on the Moon, because of how far we were reaching out, he said. Complete photographic coverage is being maintained, color film being preferred since it permits more ready identification of components and their condition. This provides a view of cramped quarters inside the capsule. Yeah I came across this thread when I was searching, I was pretty disappointed that pretty much all the links were dead, but you can actually make them work by using wayback machine. In August, the agency took delivery of Spacecraft 012 at Kennedy Space Center. Anyone know for sure? We keep his medal, for exceptional bravery, in a humble wooden frame. A better Apollo capsule was born from the accident. 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. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. All three astronauts were gone long before they sustained burns. A pure oxygen atmosphere was one option, as it required a lighter environmental control system to produce than a more complex mix of nitrogen and oxygen. Back in 1996, we gained permission from Dan Golden for its' release, but friction between the concerned parties has prevented its' release. Nasa flight director Chris Kraft heard screams as a fire consumed the spacecraftwhileit sat on the launchpad. I'm sure that it joined other hulks of previous craft used in previous testing and was scrapped there. As I have heard it explained, once several projects already underway are finished, the discussion may pick up again with serious intentions. A community for asking whether programs, products, or services are legitimate. While Grissom complained long and loud behind the scenes about many of the problems with his spacecraft, he likely tolerated the bad wiring because he, NASA, and its contractors were at that time firmly in the grip of a deadly malady called Go Fever, wrote George Leopold in his recently published book on Grissoms life, Calculated Risk. Image: NASA. Eight months and three missions later, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon. Nasa flight director Chris Kraft was listening in when the fire broke out, and recalled the chilling moment in graphic detail in a recent interview. On that mission, Mercury's Liberty Bell 7, the hatch door blew for unknown reasons upon splashdown. As for the black channel tapes, you are correct. My speculation is that CM 014 may have simply been buried in an abandoned missile silo. A rare image of the Apollo crew on January 27, 1967. Look at the glass of the face shield compared to the A1 helmets, looks more like earlier Russian helmets to me. I also think your idea of putting it on display under the launch pedestal is worthy of consideration but I think preserving it outdoors in the Florida climate would take its toll. Further,anexhibit honoring the Apollo 1 crew was opened at the Kennedy Space Center in 2017,displaying the hatchesthat were on the spacecraft. Press J to jump to the feed. The mission was. USARegistered: Jul 2007. Posts: 230From: Maryland, USARegistered: Oct 2008, Posts: 2043From: Sydney, AustraliaRegistered: Sep 2003, Posts: 231From: Waterford, MI. The Apollo spacecraft Command Module for the AS-204 mission is shown during preparation for installation of the crew compartment heat shield. Posts: 1624From: Bethpage, N.Y.Registered: Jul 2002, Posts: 108From: Wilmington, NC, New HanoverRegistered: Aug 2004. I will be back there in the fall, and I'm going to request the file myself just to see if they are actually in there or whether they are still restricted, as I really hope they are. Rick, you talked about the crew autopsy being done near the pad (I think they called it the bioastronautics support unit). NASA had a lofty goal, set byPresident John F. Kennedyin 1961, to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade. Technicians raced to the scene, trying to fight the fire with extinguishers amid faulty breathing masks. Copyright 2020 collectSPACE.com All rights reserved. Floor-to-ceiling windows let in a dull light that outlined Cunningham; it was a gloomy backdrop thatmirrored the Apollo astronauts melancholy mood. Suddenly, at 6:31 PM, a call over the comms line: Henry heard the call while he ascended the elevator. Registered: Feb 2000. posted 10-25-2005 07:54 AM. Those are not available to researchers. Eric Berger Chaffee (left), White, and Grissom inside the mission simulator. 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 believe the entire spacecraft should be reassembled with the hatch on or off. I don't know if that was intended, but it's there. At last, the door was open, but it was too late. The temperature of the flame and gas exiting from the fracture origin exceeded 1640 K (2500 degrees F). After years of war tours, Henry was in a stopover in Detroit, sometime around 1943. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. But if you look at the first 2, Grissom and White, you can very clearly see their faces. 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. It's nowhere to be found on any official website or any serious news articles. I will report the results back here unless someone here beats me to it! The Apollo 1 crew two days before 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. As a boy, Henry would pick cotton or sell boiled peanuts at baseball games to help make ends meet. Grissom, White, and Chaffee did not die in vain, Tribe said. Fed by flammable features such as nylon netting and foam pads, the blaze quickly spread. 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. His suit is also the most damaged. Regarding the suits, the pictures that have been published by NASA shows that the suits were heavily damaged, certainly not in the pristine white condition that was later described. 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. Most material from the late 80's and older is held at the archives, either in College Park or in other repositories around the country (notably in Atlanta and Fort Worth.) Especially now while we still have people who were there that could be involved in helping to create the display. By the way, Stephen Clemmons if you are reading this please explain what "scrapped" means in regard to CM 014, the spacecraft dismantled during the Apollo 1 fire investigation. As a result, everyone on the Apollo team felt a personal responsibility to put in marathon time. The Apollo original film is still in Houston. The morning of the test, the crew suited up and detected a foul odor in the breathing oxygen, which took about an hour to fix. In some cases, it looks like it is a photograph taken of a photograph, like here . "They were really pushing the pedal on this because there was so much politics involved.". If it is going to be on display it should be done tastefully with closed hatches and blacked out windows. Even though he would be leaving in the next few days, he asked her out, and they started dating long distance, writing letters to each other. 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. Posts: 31From: Reston, VA, USARegistered: Jun 2010. When the Command Module had been adequately ventilated, the doctors returned to the White Room with equipment for crew removal. Some wires even appeared frayed. 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. Image: NASA. You'll see that there is no indication of a cause of death other than be asphyxiation.However, in another part of the report it does say that the hull rupture was caused by a leaking oxygen hose and that temperatures were over 1000 degrees in that vicinity. And then there was dead silence on the pad. But unbeknownst to him, the scene in the white room where he was heading intensified rapidly in just a matter of seconds. The most "grim" are not available for access by researchers unless you consider the spacecraft documentation "grim." More damage of such a move could be done to the aging spacecraft and the cost alone, in a number of ways, is just not feasible in my opinion. Years later they were retrieved, but the photos were heavily damaged. He marched forward stoically, the way so many from that generation seemed to do, and continued to work on the Apollo program until its conclusion, in 1975. Astronauts Virgil I. Somewhere on the surface of the moon today, this plaque still sits, with eight names carved into it. 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. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. There was a 17 second gap from when the crew reported the fire to their death, analysts concluded. It should be left as is for the sake of history and for future generations and possible analysis down the line in years to come when technology improves. The loss of structural integrity at these penetrations occurred after the primary rupture. 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. To its credit, NASA would learn from the thorough and objective analyses of the causes and experiences of these disasters. 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? I've been through all the Apollo 1 photos at College Park. Several months before that Gemini flight, however, technicians cut the first metal onApolloflight hardware, known as Spacecraft 012. Ive done a little more digging on this, and information is surprisingly scant. As I said in my earlier post you can still see shredded white flakes of spacesuit material below the hatchway sill on the floor of the spacecraft upon the melted mattress pads. The exhibit was done in consultation with the astronauts' families. Posts: 1369From: Chester, Cheshire, UKRegistered: May 2001. In other words as you walk under the launch pedestal dead center below you would be Apollo 1. As such, after the Apollo 1 fire, many items were re-designed to reduce their flammability including the spacesuits. Same goes with the photographs and black channel tapes that were eventually retrieved by the National Archives. [Infographic: How the Apollo 1 Fire Happened]. View our online Press Pack. The changes made to the Apollo Command Module as a result of the tragedy resulted in a highly reliable craft which, with the exception of Apollo 13, helped make the complex and . Posts: 43576From: Houston, TXRegistered: Nov 1999. However, I do find myself doubting that the hoses acted as blow torches, as it appears from photos that the hoses were largely un-burned. When it was all over, spacecraft 014 was just a pile of parts, with the main shell intact. I tend to spend much more time on the 4th floor in the film archives than in the photo archives. 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