Apollo 1 Disaster: A Tragic Space Launch 🚀

"On the 27th of January, 1967, a disaster during a routine test launch at the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex in Florida put America’s space program on hold..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Background
03:54 - The Apollo One Disaster
06:25 - The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
► "Magenta" by Sextile

SOURCES:
► "55 Years Ago: The Apollo 1 Fire and its Aftermath" by John Uri, published by NASA, February 2022. Link: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/55-years-ago-the-apollo-1-fire-and-its-aftermath
► "The hell of Apollo 1: Pure oxygen, a single spark, and death in 17 seconds" by Eric Berger, published by Ars Technica, January 2017. Link: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/the-hell-of-apollo-1-pure-oxygen-a-single-spark-and-death-in-17-seconds/
► "‘We have a fire in the cockpit!’ The Apollo 1 disaster 50 years later" by Sarah Larimer, published by The Washington Post, January 2017. Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/26/50-years-ago-three-astronauts-died-in-the-apollo-1-fire/
► "The Apollo 1 tragedy" by David Williams, published by NASA, January 2018. Link: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo1info.html.

CORRECTIONS:
► In this episode I give the date of the moon landing as the 16th of July, 1969. This was actually the date when the moon landing mission launched - the actual landing took place on the 20th of July, 1969.

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