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Ask Alexa and start learning a new language today. I'm John Bess with Bob Zimmerman, my longtime good colleague in the author of the story of Apollo 8, Genesis, the first man flight to another world,

it is January 1967.

Apollo 1 is on the launch pad being checked out by three senior astronauts and then

Bob this catastrophe is easy to remember for all of us who were watching at the time because it was a blow to

NASA it was a blow that had not been expected they weren't actually blasting off

what happened Bob in Apollo 1?

It's interesting, John, but this was a case where they were not careful.

And that's why the failure happened.

This was a launch pad dress rehearsal countdown. The three

astronauts, Gus Grissom the commander, Ed White, who was also an experienced astronaut, he had

done the first space walk and

Roger Chaffee who had never flown in space before these guys were in the

capsule in their spacesuits and they were doing with mission control the

equivalent of a dresser Countdown preparing for the first Apollo

Mission, unmanned mission in orbit, hopefully in 67.

And at some point there was a spark in the capsule and within less than a minute and a half those three men burned to death.

Suffocated mostly was the oxygen burned and it was no, would be he killed them as well as the lack of

oxygen they were dead within within 75 seconds and at that moment in time there

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