#Apollo1
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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
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
🕯️ 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/
Human progress is paved with the lives of those bold enough to tread where none have dared. Today, on the 58th anniversary of their deaths, we honor the bravery and sacrifice of Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee.
27. Jan. 1967: #Apollo1 - die drei Astronauten Edward H. White, Virgil I. Grissom und Roger B. Chaffee sterben durch einen Brand in der Kapsel während eines Tests auf der Startrampe.
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.
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/
#OnThisDay, January 27, in 1967, a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test killed all three crew members of moon mission Apollo 1, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee (depicted in From the Earth to the Moon, s01e02, "Apollo 1", 1998)
#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #TodayInHistory #Histodons #Apollo1 #FromTheEarthToTheMoon
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
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."
Aujourd'hui on célèbre le triste anniversaire du drame de #Apollo1
https://reves-d-espace.com/apollo-1-le-27-janvier-1967-un-drame-historique/
NYC’s tech scene never sleeps, OpenAi raises $300M, Apollo 1 terrifying audio, Victoria’s Secret fashion show is back, T-Squared Social golf lounge, and soccer refs get body cams
#nyc #nyctech #openai #apollo1 #vicroriassecret #fashion #tsquaredsocial #golf #soccer #soccerrefs
@Otttoz già. #apollo1 ha insegnato alla NASA che in un ambiente pressurizzato con ossgeno puro l'infiammabilità dei materiali aumenta drasticamente. Hanno imparato. E grazie a ciò, per esempio, la riaccensione, al rientro, del computer di #apollo13 andò bene nonostante la grande quantità di condensa che si era formata.
This is Launch Complex 34 at Cape #Canaveral Air Force Station.
During a test of the #Apollo command and service modules and a Saturn I rocket in preparation for the Apollo 1 mission, a small spark from an unknown origin, combined with pure oxygen environment, allowed a fire to break out and essentially used all the oxygen in the combustion reaction, killing mission commander Gus Grissom, senior pilot Ed White, and pilot Roger Chaffee nearly instantly.
LC-34 was abandoned-in-place after the last Saturn launch was decommissioned.
It remains as a #memorial.
Get a print or other merchandise at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/lc-34-launch-table-heron-and-fox.html
#Apollo1, #LC34, #SaturnI, #CapeCanaveral, #CCAFS, #Photography.
The two metal structures are the flame #deflectors, which are meant to sit under the #launch table during launch to divert #rocket #exhaust away from the #vehicle to avoid thermal, acoustic, or debris issues, as well as to minimize damage to #pad #infrastructure.
Theses #FlameDeflectors were used at LC-34 for the #Saturn I and the larger, wider one was used for the upgraded Saturn IB. Flame delflectors are meant to divert the #exhaust of a #rocket as it #launches to protect the #vehicle and #pad #infrastructure.
After the #Apollo Program was finished, #LC34’s tower was dismantlted to prevent its uncontrolled collapse due to rust from the salt spray. The rest was #abandoned in place and a #memorial #plaque and kiosk were to memorialize the deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee during the Apollo 1 fire.
#CapeCanaveralAirForceStatsion, #CCAFS, #Apollo1, #AbandonInPlace
Buy a print: https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/lc-34-flame-deflectors-heron-and-fox.html
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
We remember and will never forget their sacrifice.
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee
True Explorers, True Men, True Patriots, True Americans 🇺🇸
#Apollo1