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Offline SCEtoAUX

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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #30 on: January 27, 2006, 08:20:03 PM »
IIRC, he was using TATP as the detonator. Main charge was PETN.
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Offline DonPMitchell

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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2006, 08:39:31 PM »
Ah OK.  And I see a page on powerlabs.org that gives detailed instructions on PETN synthesis, complete with pictures.  I'd have probably killed myself as a teen (with my incredibly huge dangerous chemisty set) if I had the information on his site.  Idiots...
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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #32 on: January 27, 2006, 08:53:19 PM »
It should be pointed out that today marks the thirty-ninth anniversary of the disaster that took the lives of Grissom, White, and Chaffee.  It took place on a Friday, January 27, and the flash fire began at 6:31 p.m. at Cape Kennedy.  It's just the first of three anniversaries related to death in the space program over the coming week.
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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #33 on: January 27, 2006, 09:10:55 PM »
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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #34 on: January 27, 2006, 09:30:50 PM »
May those pioneers never be forgotten.
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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #35 on: January 27, 2006, 09:48:24 PM »
May they be remembered.
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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #36 on: January 27, 2006, 10:10:26 PM »
About a year prior to the fire, it was around noon and I had just sat down in the cafeteria at the Downey facility of NAA. It was kind of crowded and then these six guys sat next to me at the table to eat. I had no idea who they were as I was busy preparing my lunch. I looked up and all of the people in that room were staring my way. I thought maybe I did something wrong or had food on my chin. Then a couple of the secretaries started coming over to the table with dollar bills? Well it turned out the six were the prime and backup crew for Apollo One. I’ll never forget how nice and friendly they were signing those bills and conversing with the common worker bees.
Does anyone remember the names of the backup crew?

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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #37 on: January 27, 2006, 10:21:17 PM »
Wasn't it Schirra, Cunningham and Eisley?  The Apollo 7 crew who flew 20 months later?
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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #38 on: January 27, 2006, 10:23:55 PM »
Quote from: dcsugeek on January 27, 2006, 10:10:26 PM
Does anyone remember the names of the backup crew?
I'll take a guess and say Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham.  This was the crew of Apollo 7, which was the first manned flight after the Apollo 1 fire, so I'm assuming they were the Apollo 1 backup crew.
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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #39 on: January 28, 2006, 01:25:25 PM »
I remember reading somewhere (and I'm going to have to dig for it) that Schirra's crew was originally assigned as the second manned CSM only flight and that McDivitt's crew(Scott & Schweickart)were backing up Grissom's crew until it was decided that there would be only one orbital CSM test flight followed by a CSM-LM test flight. As Schirra's crew was in training for CSM only, they were shifted to Apollo 1 back-up and McDivitt's crew became prime crew for the first CSM-LM flight.

I hope that made sense :?
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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #40 on: January 31, 2006, 12:51:52 AM »
Sounds like Governmentese... ;)
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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #41 on: February 17, 2006, 03:13:34 AM »
At High school our teacher showed us how to make rockets well they were supposed to be small exploshins In  a controled invirement. But she then decided we could to it out side since the day was carm.I got my tin stuck loads of alchhoel in( we were gonna see who could make the rocket that could take of for longest. okay so I put the right amounts In they were quite alot and i went first the teacher stuck lots of prue oxegen in and then I lit the fuse bit and ran back mine soared into the air lookled liek it was trying to orbit earth then fell down everyone else did quiet well but my mate put to much fuel in so he lit his ran back It felw up futher than mine and exploded (i never figured out why) (even the teacher did not) and it crashed int the roof no dammage but since mine did not blow up I won.
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Re: Apollo 1 disaster
« Reply #42 on: May 02, 2006, 04:16:50 PM »
The Apollo 1 conspiracy theory again...deep sigh...The last time I corresponded with Scott Grissom he seemed obsessed with the notion it was murder. He claimed that a part of the Apollo 1 instrument panel was missing, and that it would prove murder. He told me where this "thing" was on the instrument panel- or at least should have been. However, he would not say what it was, where he thought it was, or why his father was "murdered". I got the impression he was as nutty as a fruitcake, and that anything he says should be viewed as highly suspect. I stopped corresponding with him because I found the majority of his "facts" proved highly suspect. A number of people in the newsgroup sci.space.history found him a bore because he droned on about his dad being murdered so much. He claimed that somehow Schirra was involved in a cover-up of some sorts, but would not give any particulars when asked to provide them.

After the fire flight assignments were changed. Schirra, Cunningham, and Eisele *** became *** the backup crew, but they were not the original backup crew for Apollo 1 as this tidbit from Chariots For Apollo indicates...

Announced 21 March 1966
First manned flight - orbital
Prime crew: Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee
Backup crew: James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart.

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