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KSRBEvans
01-27-2017, 07:52 AM
RIP Grissom, White and Chaffee.

Great Ars Technica article about the disaster and how it ultimately produced a better Apollo program:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/the-hell-of-apollo-1-pure-oxygen-a-single-spark-and-death-in-17-seconds/

suncat05
01-27-2017, 12:51 PM
Those early astronauts, while they may have been the guys that weren't afraid to "push the envelope", have to be among the bravest human beings that have ever lived on this earth. And their Soviet counterparts as well. Fearless and very intelligent, and I admire all of them, on both sides, immensely.

dan_bgblue
01-27-2017, 06:51 PM
Truth ^^^