The mission was to be the first crewed flight of Apollo, and was scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967. Read more: Apollo landers, Neil Armstrongs bootprint and other human artifacts on Moon officially protected by new US law (opens in new tab). Immediately after the Apollo 1 fire, to avoid appearance of a conflict of interest, NASA Administrator James E. Webb asked President Lyndon B. Johnson to allow NASA to handle the investigation according to its established procedure, promising to be truthful in assessing blame, and to keep the appropriate leaders of Congress informed. THE doomedApollo 1 crew's chilling last moments have been revealed by a renowned flight director who was listening in fromMission Control. It was even discussed years/decades ago about the possibility of placing Apollo 1 inside 34's blockhouse, under the pedestal at the pad, or somewhere nearby. The most glaring was that the atmosphere inside the cabin was pure oxygen. That being said, as long as we can't retrace the exact origin, we won't know for sure. It should be left as is for the sake of history and for future generations and possible analysis down the line in years to come when technology improves. Should we be surprised that it appears the Air Force either chose not to mention or simply overlooked the gash in its official autopsy report on Chaffee? Apollo Spacecraft 12 Command/Service Module is moved from H-134 to east stokes for mating to the Saturn Lunar Module Adapter No. Most of these copies of the recordings end just before the accident. Further, the hatch door intended to keep the astronauts and the atmosphere securely inside the spacecraft turned out to be too tough to open under the unfortunate circumstances. A pure oxygen atmosphere was one option, as it required a lighter environmental control system to produce than a more complex mix of nitrogen and oxygen. Henry Rogers, with wife Doreen and sons Randy and Tim (in arms), circa 1951. As for someday displaying Apollo 1 I really don't think it should be restored. I don't think the Apollo Command Module would even fit inside the main doors of the blockhouse (I'll have to recheck on that along with the service entry area of the control center), as I would hate to see it disassembled in pieces just to accomplish such a feat. "That was followed, shortly thereafter, by Chaffee saying 'we've got a fire in the cockpit.'". There has been renewed interest since the loss of Columbia by several parties to exhibit part or whole of the command module but as with most things in life the most limiting factor has been the lack of funds. I don't know how much was left of the suits after the fire, but probably not much. - Jan 24, 2017 1:00 am UTC. Most of what's available in the NASA archives held at College Park are NACA archives, and the Apollo 204 and Challenger accident reports. Though it was mostly business as usual, there had been some issues with the communications connections. He marched forward stoically, the way so many from that generation seemed to do, and continued to work on the Apollo program until its conclusion, in 1975. It seems to pop up more often on forums or amateur-ish websites. The Soviets were big on publishing photos of pilots that gave their lives for the space program. Henry was 16 when WWII broke out. In the 51 years since, NASA has flown just one other crewed spacecraft: the Space Shuttle. The fire reached the ceiling and sent "burning chunks of Teflon" flying off the spacecraft, Clemmons wrote in his essay. The Apollo 1 crew, from left to right, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom. To view it, confirm your age. And then there was dead silence on the pad. But unbeknownst to him, the scene in the white room where he was heading intensified rapidly in just a matter of seconds. They are now in the archives, but they were originally stored in the sealed storage facility, as were all of the photos and findings. Happier days: in June 1966, the Apollo 1 crew practices water egress procedures with a full scale boilerplate model of the spacecraft. A better Apollo capsule was born from the accident. For this reason it was decided to discontinue efforts at removal in the interest of accident investigation and to photograph the Command Module with the crew in place before evidence was disarranged. His wife, Betty, asked what he was going to do with it. The blacked out passage at the top connected the spacecraft, white room, and tower. With only a third of the cabin pressure as Earth, normal airwhich is about 78 percent nitrogen and 20 percent oxygenwouldn't be capable of sustaining life while in orbit. From left to right are astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. NASA, today, describes this role as having the "utmost importance," because QC inspectors "support the space program and safeguard the lives of our astronauts.". Floor-to-ceiling windows let in a dull light that outlined Cunningham; it was a gloomy backdrop thatmirrored the Apollo astronauts melancholy mood. We were sitting at the end of the arrow so we got the glory, but those other people had the same attitude we didif this mission fails it wont be because of me.. The Apollo 1 Crew Training via nasa.gov A few weeks later, the Apollo disaster occurred and Baron began work on turning his 55-page report into a 500-page report excoriating NASA and NAA for the failures that led to the tragedy. Also, the center and left-hand suits, while obviously fire-damaged, are in better condition than I would expect the Apollo suits to be in given the descriptions provided of what happened to the astronauts. They are individually placed in green "Army" type canvas bags, then individually placed in their own wooden crate. The first manned mission an Earth-orbiting mission was originally designated Apollo Saturn-204, or AS-204, but was later renamed Apollo 1. Holly's skull had been split and most of his brain tissue was missing (via CooperToons ). Although the mission was not officially named Apollo 1 until after the fire, this was the patch they intended to carry into space. At some point, something will have to be done with it anyway. Astronauts for the first Apollo Mission (L-R) Roger B. Chaffee, Edward H. White and Virgil I. Grissom practice for the mission in the Apollo Mission Simulator. Apollo 1 was the first - and more would follow over the years. To display the capsule would help present and future generations be able to see and understand the sacrifices that were made with the Apollo 1 tragedy and what was learned to prevent it from happening again. I find it unlikely that their bodies were not removed before these photos were taken, but its possible their faces could have imprinted on the glass somehowresting on the glass while ash accumulated around it, or something of that naturein a way that would have left an impression even after the remains were removed. NASA published the results of an official investigation of the Apollo fire in 1968. My guess is that no one would want the outer shell for scrap since all the ablator would have to be removed - a seemingly expensive procedure compared to the value of the metal. The white room attached to a swing arm that connected it to the spacecraft. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Ultimately, however, the Apollo 1 fire probably saved NASAs lunar ambitions. He joined the Navy in 1941 after graduating from high school, and binged on bananas in order to gain enough weight to enlist. He was chosen was among NASA's first group of seven astronauts, the Mercury Seven. We [looked] in and we couldn't see anything, so we reached in to see if we could feel anything. Whilst I have read about the oxygen hoses burning through and the crew being asphyxiated, I've never heard anything like that before about the Apollo 1 tragedy. However, if they are soviets, I have no idea who they could be. The one on the far right is from Apollo 1. However, because a pure oxygen atmosphere had worked without incident for the Mercury and Gemini capsules, NASA decided it would be safe to press ahead with the same for the larger Apollo capsule. We never really had any doubts. Image: NASA. To understand the whirlwind in which NASA existed in the mid-1960s, consider that Gordon Cooper flew the final Mercury mission in May 1963. Engineering changes were still in progress as NASA prepared for the countdown test. Photos were taken of the bodies, but I couldn't find anything indicating more were taken after they were removed from the Command Module. Posts: 13From: Fort Recovery, OHRegistered: Jul 2013, Copyright 2020 collectSPACE.com All rights reserved. The agency also met Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon in 1969, during Apollo 11. Also of interest is that some speculate that the Block I suits were made of nomex and that if they had been wearing the Beta suits of Apollo 7 onwards that the suits would have been almost completely intact. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Press J to jump to the feed. First it would be displayed where the accident happened, secondly it would be out of reach of collectors with sticky fingers, and thirdly it would rid Langley of the burden while in reality it would still be stored, only at KSC. "Within minutes we knew they were dead, and we were in deep, serious trouble. NASA administrators sit at the witness table before the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Services, chaired by Senator Clinton P. Anderson, on the Apollo 1 (Apollo 204) accident. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Apollo_1_-_Chaffee_in_Apollo_Block_I_space_suit.jpg. The first of three sons, my dad, was born in December 1946. He helped dig up some air masks, and then joined the men trying to open the three-layer hatch. I've heard it has been released in its entirety before, but I had never heard it all before. However, I do find myself doubting that the hoses acted as blow torches, as it appears from photos that the hoses were largely un-burned. Some in the Astronaut Office were skeptical that Grissom's reputation would recover (many believed Grissom blew the hatch; he swore he didn't). My theory it that if those picture were indeed taken by Nasa, the person who published them stole them. This is the same building that the bodies of the Apollo 1 crew members were first transported to after the fire and examined, each in a separate unit. His suit is also the most damaged. As such, after the Apollo 1 fire, many items were re-designed to reduce their flammability including the spacesuits. The flammable oxygen environment for ground tests was replaced with a nitrogen-oxygen mix. Seeing Earth from Space Is the Key to Saving Our Species from Itself. Although a rookie in space, he had spent years supporting the Gemini program, most publicly as CapCom on Gemini 4. A diagram of the spacecraft and control tower from the investigation report. One idea that we were kicking around was displaying it out at launch complex #34 directly below the opening of the launch pedestal below ground level in the equipment room. "Nobody really said anything for 15 minutes, until they got the hatch open. Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.47a. Reply . "I have a personal feeling that, without their loss in 1967, we might not have gotten to the moon, literally, because what we learned from that accident made a safer program," he told me. There seem to be a visor laid next to the helmet, like it was just burned so bad that it wouldn't hold on it so they just took the pic with pic lying next to the corpse. I am assuming you're speaking of photos of the bodies, both in place and in autopsy. As he surveyed the capsule that Grissom, White, and Chaffee were to fly in, Young saw a seemingly endless amount of short circuits. "I heard them scream that they were on fire. Ed White rides a life raft in the foreground, Chaffee sits in the hatch of the model spacecraft, and Grissom waits inside the spacecraft. Along with immediate threat of the flames, there was a looming danger overhead: the 9000 lb escape rocket attached to the tower. To its credit, NASA would learn from the thorough and objective analyses of the causes and experiences of these disasters. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. These are pictures taken of the astronauts just after the Apollo 1 tragedy on January 27, 1967. January 27, 1967, was a Friday, the end of another grueling week ramping up to the Apollo I launch date, mere weeks away: February 21, 1967. The Mercury and Gemini onboard original film is at College Park. Though they eventually pried the hatches off, it was too late. "He was now nearly blind from the acrid smoke. Image: NASA. 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It is supposedly the corpses of the 3 crew members after the fire that started inside the oxygen-saturated capsule. "The smoke was so thick that Jim couldn't see the spacecraft, but could only feel around for the [hatch]," Clemmons wrote. My speculation is that CM 014 may have simply been buried in an abandoned missile silo. Ars may earn compensation on sales from links on this site. Grissom was America's second person in space in 1961. Space.com is the premier source of space exploration, innovation and astronomy news, chronicling (and celebrating) humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier. Nasa flight director Chris Kraft heard screams as a fire consumed the spacecraftwhileit sat on the launchpad. I was shocked at the condition of LC-34. The pics are indeed the ones I found, so this means that they appeared a lot sooner than I thought, TinEye only showed as early as 2008. I just finished watching a YouTube video ("1994 One Small Step") in which the former NASA press officer Paul Haney was interviewed. Remembering the Apollo 1 Crew NASA The prime crew members of NASA's first manned Apollo Space Flight are pictured during training in Florida on March 21, 1966. Years later, many at NASA believed their deaths were the one thing that saved the program, but in the wake of tragedy, the future of the fledgling Apollo program became uncertain. College Park contains a good deal more than just NACA and Apollo 1 and Challenger. What I was told is that some of 014's parts were used as spares for the simulators, but most of the CM was scrapped. Now the Apollo missions would take astronauts all the way to the moon for orbital missions and landing missions. Grissom and his crew were gambling that the growing list of problems with the spacecraft would somehow be fixed in time for the February launch.. Copyright 2020 collectSPACE.com All rights reserved. Is that the same building as the "infirmary" in the Cape industrial area that one passes on the Then and Now Tour? But they are generally labeled as photos of the suits, not of human remains, and several online sources state that no photos of the pilots remains were taken. The USS Arizona is on display, so why not the complete Apollo 1 spacecraft? The viewer would look through glass and observe the entire spacecraft from a top angle. Ad Choices. Any thoughts or knowledge on this matter? Then at 6:31 p.m. came a frightening word from the spacecraft: "Fire.". Registered: Feb 2000. posted 10-25-2005 07:54 AM. As for the spacecraft and related components being shipped to the Cape and buried in the silos, this was attempted once (and blocked). Posts: 225From: Lake Orion, MichiganRegistered: Feb 2006, Posts: 270From: College Station, TXRegistered: Apr 2003, Posts: 101From: Bryan, Texas USARegistered: Jun 2005, Posts: 1624From: Bethpage, N.Y.Registered: Jul 2002, Posts: 2141From: Essex, UKRegistered: Jul 2001, Copyright 2020 collectSPACE.com All rights reserved. Eric Berger After years of war tours, Henry was in a stopover in Detroit, sometime around 1943. They were used to seeing machines under development and dealing with delays, and assessing the airplanes' readiness for flight. Henry "Buck" Rogers was born on March 25, 1923, along with his twin sister, Betty, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The interior parts would not need to be installed. That doesn't tell us where these pics came from tho. The fire forced a hard reset of a space program that had been rushing headlong toward the Moon, but had lost its way due to overconfidence. Those are not available to researchers. Well it's hard to really hard to distinguish anything in those pics. I've been through all the Apollo 1 photos at College Park. Credits: NASA Apollo 1 Tragedy Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204). But if you look at the first 2, Grissom and White, you can very clearly see their faces. The temperature of the flame and gas exiting from the fracture origin exceeded 1640 K (2500 degrees F). In the hurly burly world of NASA at the time, however, such a problem hardly stood out with the imperfect vehicle. Mastodon: https://qoto.org/@howellspace. What I have read suggests displaying the outer shell only. The suits are in "poor" condition thanks to NASA. Join the Ars Orbital Transmission mailing list to get weekly updates delivered to your inbox. McDonnell Aircraft had won NASA contracts to construct the Mercury and Gemini capsules, but the Apollo award went to North American Aviation. Ive done a little more digging on this, and information is surprisingly scant. If it is not included with the outer shell then eventually the pressure shell will be disposed of in some manner, thus it will be lost. When Henry arrived, without hesitation, he plunged into the fiery chaos unfolding in front of him. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Press J to jump to the feed. Rick, you talked about the crew autopsy being done near the pad (I think they called it the bioastronautics support unit). Determination - The crew was exposed to a lethal atmosphere when the first suit was breached. The speed and intensity of the fire rapidly used up the oxygen supply inside the crew cabin. . These records and items need to be preserved for history. I'm sure it was a calculated risk for them to be on Apollo 1.0 instead of Apollo 15.0 or something. I don't agree that the inner pressure hull should be left out. There is still remnants of the spacesuits in the form of white powdered flakes on the spacecraft floor below the hatch. Years later they were retrieved, but the photos were heavily damaged. Afire famously broke out while the astronauts were sitting on the launchpad, waiting fora microphone glitch to be fixed. Knowing full well the premium on weight in a spacecraft launched from Earth to the Moon in a single stack, managers looked for every opportunity to trim mass from the capsule and three-stage rocket. After leaving NASA at the conclusion of the Apollo program in 1975, he enjoyed just four years of retirement before he died from pancreatic cancer. We were sitting there, waiting for them to say what we knew they were going to say.". Our current news team consists of Editor-in-Chief Tariq Malik; Editor Hanneke Weitering, Senior Space Writer Mike Wall; Senior Writer Meghan Bartels; Senior Writer Chelsea Gohd, Senior Writer Tereza Pultarova and Staff Writer Alexander Cox, focusing on e-commerce. Click on the smaller spacesuit picture for a larger picture. The crew was having trouble communicating with Mission Control while testing the Command Module on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. The nation's Moon landing program suffered a shocking setback on Jan. 27, 1967, with the deaths of Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. No one seems to know where the main hull of 014 went to, but it is possible that it was also shipped back to Downy, California, since it still belonged to NAA and had not been accepted by NASA. The investigation revealed a number of small missteps that had added up to disaster. Spacecraft 012 had shipped from California to Florida with more than 100 significant engineering orders still not completed, according to the accident report. However, there are extensive photo holdings at NARA Atlanta (From MSFC and KSC). NASA. As I have heard it explained, once several projects already underway are finished, the discussion may pick up again with serious intentions. But while he was in the elevator, a fire had broken out in the spacecraft cabin. Fellow spaceflight veteranEd White, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, was the first American to make a spacewalk, on Gemini 4 in 1965. Yeah I came across this thread when I was searching, I was pretty disappointed that pretty much all the links were dead, but you can actually make them work by using wayback machine. Oh well, this debate will probably be going on always hopefully someday there can be a better, respectful, and permanent "home" for America's first three-man spacecraft. But the space race with the USSR, combined with Kennedy's public goal of a moon landing, created a growing sense of urgency to advance the Apollo program at a breakneck pace. There are some wonderful textual records in Fort Worth (from JSC). The medical facility is less than 2 miles from Pad 34 where the tragic fire took place. The more likely problem is that once the hoses became separated from the spacesuits, they could have distributed additional oxygen into the cabin to help keep the fire alive. I don't believe that it would have been scrapped at KSC because of the materials involved. Yet even amid this hectic schedule, engineers with the agency confidently conducted final design reviews on the Apollo capsule. There are so many photos of Walt in his Apollo 2 suit out there, and they appear to look the exact same as the Apollo 1 suits. Good find, that's pretty interesting. Any thoughts? But the sheer horror and emotional intensity of having three colleaguesfor many in the program, three close friendssuffocate in a burning capsule while scrambling to save them, hasn't been as well preserved. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). NASA was forced to ship everything back to Langley. As for the blockhouse most of them on ICBM row are now used for storage or office space. Original: Jan 26, 2017. It was really hard for me to get an idea of where everything once stood as it would have for Apollo 1 and 7. On a gray January afternoon in Houston, Walt Cunningham leaned into his Eames Lounge Chair and clasped his hands behind his head, the better to try and bend his thoughts back across five decades. See their faces `` that was followed, shortly thereafter, by Chaffee saying 'we 've a... Publicly as CapCom on Gemini 4 reached in to see if we feel. To reduce their flammability including the spacesuits get an idea of where everything once stood as it would for! 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