In the 51 years since, NASA has flown just one other crewed spacecraft: the Space Shuttle. Concerning the bones I think I can see a couple tibia bones on the lower right of the middle pic but that's about all. As he surveyed the capsule that Grissom, White, and Chaffee were to fly in, Young saw a seemingly endless amount of short circuits. "He was now nearly blind from the acrid smoke. NASA Grissom, White, and Chaffee enter the Apollo. Your California Privacy Rights | Do Not Sell My Personal Information Heres how it works. Also there wasn't much left of Komarov and he was alone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Jim Gleaves, the lead technician, ran towards the spacecraft to try to open the hatch and get the crew out. 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. Practicing water egress procedures in a swimming pool at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, Texas. Henry "Buck" Rogers was born on March 25, 1923, along with his twin sister, Betty, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was a husband, and father to three boys. With the hiatus in manned flights after Apollo 1 there were no manned Block I missions. Oddly enough, within a week Baron and his family were killed when their car was struck by a train. Heard that all of them pretty much looked like that Cosmonaut did. And what was the purpose of keeping this blood? 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. 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. He was chosen was among NASA's first group of seven astronauts, the Mercury Seven. But for those like Henry Rogers who experienced the tragedy firsthand, the trauma of January 27, 1967 left scars, and a deep sense of regret that's difficult to capture all these years later. Roger Chaffeewas a seasoned Navy lieutenant commander who joined the program in 1963. Especially now while we still have people who were there that could be involved in helping to create the display. Somewhere on the surface of the moon today, this plaque still sits, with eight names carved into it. In it he spoke about the Apollo 1 fire and mentioned that during the fire one of the crews oxygen hoses had burnt through and "whipped" around the cockpit "like an acetylene torch" and had "nearly beheaded one of . Posts: 342From: Houston, Texas, USARegistered: Jun 2004. One thing in particular that caught my attention was the obvious pathway of the fire and the vast difference in temperature ranges, and extent of damage. His autopsy report painted a gruesome sight of what occurred to his body when the plane crashed. It was 6:31 p.m. on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire started in Apollo 1 killing . The Apollo 1 space vehicle (initally referred to as Spacecraft 12) is hoisted to the top of the gantry at Pad 34 during the Apollo/Saturn Mission 204 (later known as the Apollo 1 flight) erection. According to the 200-page report, Grissom, Chaffee, and White had died of cardiac arrest from inhaling too much carbon monoxide and falling asleep. In some places it was hot enough to melt stainless steel, and yet in other places blue velcro (Grissom's and Chaffee's side) was not damaged at all. Among the names listed: Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. As a backup crew member for the initial Apollo mission, Cunningham recalled clambering into the first Apollo capsule on Jan. 26, 1967 for some pre-flight work. You're right about last part: those suits don't look like they've been through the hell that took place inside the Apollo 1 command module. If the fire reached it, it could ignite and explode. There are some wonderful textual records in Fort Worth (from JSC). Many of these items were then used as spare parts on Spacecraft 017 and 020 (unmanned), or shipped back to Downy since there was nothing wrong with them and would not be needed in the future. The Mercury and Gemini onboard original film is at College Park. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Apollo 1 Crew NASA On Jan. 27, 1967, NASA experienced its first space disaster - the deaths of three astronauts during a training excercise for the Apollo 1 mission. USARegistered: Jul 2007. By the winter of 1967, President John F. Kennedy 's goal of " landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth" by the end of the decade appeared to . The Apollo 1 crew, from left to right, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom. The aftermath of the grisly accident found America questioning its previously infallible space program, which since the late 1950s had chased, caught, and surpassed the Soviet Union in the race to the Moon. It was really hard for me to get an idea of where everything once stood as it would have for Apollo 1 and 7. The prime crew members of NASA's first manned Apollo Space Flight are pictured during training in Florida on March 21, 1966. My grandpa was one of them. A better Apollo capsule was born from the accident. Once you have access to the archives, you can request any part of the fire file you want, even the most grim of grim, photos, which I have no interest in viewing. This provides a view of cramped quarters inside the capsule. The viles of blood, are they also in the storage down at Langley? Deke Slayton, who oversaw crew selections at NASA and was present for the test, could see white flames in a closed-circuit television monitor pointing toward the spacecraft. And then it was all over.". In 1965, he made the leap from Martin to NASA, where he spent the rest of his career. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. I think the same could be said for the conditions of LC-19 and LC-14 as well. When it was all over, spacecraft 014 was just a pile of parts, with the main shell intact. That having been said, I also (once) had something brought to me by mistake that was restricted. Now that I look into it, Nasa seems to always keep any photo with human remains hidden. 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 speed and intensity of the fire rapidly used up the oxygen supply inside the crew cabin. The Apollo astronauts, most of them confident or even cocky test pilots, were accustomed to risk. As such, after the Apollo 1 fire, many items were re-designed to reduce their flammability including the spacesuits. This well regarded company had earned plaudits for the X-15, a hypersonic, rocket-powered aircraft that had flown as high as 107.8km in 1963, crossing the threshold into outer space. Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science since 2015. He joined the Navy in 1941 after graduating from high school, and binged on bananas in order to gain enough weight to enlist. They were used to seeing machines under development and dealing with delays, and assessing the airplanes' readiness for flight. Perhaps somoene can shed some light on what Roosa observed of the suit conditions on the evening of January 27, 1967. 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. As for my grandfather, I never got a chance to meet him. The mission was. 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. 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. Now it is entirely possible since the suits melted and were glued or cemented to the CM metal that when the bodies were removed that caused additional damages to the suits. But if you look at the first 2, Grissom and White, you can very clearly see their faces. Tribe told me. 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. 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. Copyright 2020 collectSPACE.com All rights reserved. Instead, 18 months after the fire, NASA launched Apollo 7, completing the mission intended for Apollo 1. This is one thing, of all my years of reading and studying, I have never heard anything about. As a result, everyone on the Apollo team felt a personal responsibility to put in marathon time. The crew was having trouble communicating with Mission Control while testing the Command Module on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. profile | register | preferences | faq | search. The USS Arizona is on display, so why not the complete Apollo 1 spacecraft? 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. "That was followed, shortly thereafter, by Chaffee saying 'we've got a fire in the cockpit.'". "He could have gotten back on the elevator and escaped to safety, knowing the dangers involved, but he didn't hesitate," the late Stephen Clemmons, a spacecraft mechanical technician who was also there that night, wrote in a 2004 essay. The medical facility is less than 2 miles from Pad 34 where the tragic fire took place. The Apollo 1 fire was a difficult time for NASA and its astronauts, but the improvements in astronaut safety allowed the agency to complete the rest of the program with no further fatalities. This was the result of NASA shutting off the nitrogen purge after the ten year mandate ended. The morning of the test, the crew suited up and detected a foul odor in the breathing oxygen, which took about an hour to fix. As for tastefully displaying Apollo 1, it won't happen anytime soon as the three families are in disagreement on that issue. These lessons may not have been learned without such a tragedy, and they helped American astronauts win the race to the moon in 1969 with Apollo 11. 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. Posts: 1051From: Messina, Sicilia, ItaliaRegistered: Jun 2004. I will report the results back here unless someone here beats me to it! The viewer would look through glass and observe the entire spacecraft from a top angle. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I don't know if that was intended, but it's there. 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. And then there was dead silence on the pad. This verified that each part of 012 was not damaged with the dis-assembly techniques. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 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. It's nowhere to be found on any official website or any serious news articles. I used TinEye to try and find the first time the image appeared on the internet and it seems to be on this page, but I don't know the language and I have no idea where the pic is on the page. Then the communications system acted up. I knew it when I saw it, and I saw it in spades in the command module, he wrote. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Press J to jump to the feed. A rare image of the Apollo crew on January 27, 1967. We pay for your stories! The Smithsonian - and for that matter certain divisions within NASA - have tried to have the capsule moved and/or restored (to its post-fire but pre-deconstruction condition) over the years but have run into various objections (including by one of the Apollo 1 families). By the time Rogers stepped out into the white roomthe area of the shuttle tower that connects with the cabinflames were erupting and black smoke filled the room. Registered: Feb 2000. posted 10-25-2005 07:54 AM. Astronauts Virgil I. 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. Grissom, White, and Chaffee enter the Apollo Command Module during training in the days before the fire. These records and items need to be preserved for history. Regarding CM 014 being scrapped, when Spacecraft 014 was brought to the PIB, it was used to develop removal procedures to disassemble Spacecraft 012. Thecrew entered the pod at1pm on February 21 1967. Six rescuers tried to save the Apollo 1 astronauts from a suffocating, fiery death. This could have come from the fact that Gus was under his seat and Ed had slipped off the center seat and was down in the open space between the seat and airframe where he had slumped over. Needless to say they were just as upset with NASA as I was. And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: community@space.com. His suit is also the most damaged. I'm sure it was a calculated risk for them to be on Apollo 1.0 instead of Apollo 15.0 or something. I attempted to discuss with NASA a method of drying the suits out by using a centrifuge, but they were not interested and told me to mind my own business. More likely to be Russian cosmonauts. "All of a sudden someone, we believe it was Grissom, said 'fire,'" John Tribe, the spacecraft propulsion manager for Apollo, who was in the control room in a separate building that night, told me. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. However, Grissom successfully commanded the first Gemini flight, Gemini 3, and was selected to do the same for Apollo. NASA had a lofty goal, set byPresident John F. Kennedyin 1961, to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade. Posts: 851From: Celina, OhioRegistered: Feb 2000. These are pictures taken of the astronauts just after the Apollo 1 tragedy on January 27, 1967. We keep his medal, for exceptional bravery, in a humble wooden frame. Several months before that Gemini flight, however, technicians cut the first metal onApolloflight hardware, known as Spacecraft 012. Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.47a. Back in 1996, we gained permission from Dan Golden for its' release, but friction between the concerned parties has prevented its' release. 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. To someone looking in, it would appear that both astronauts had been incinerated since their seats were empty. WIRED Media Group Senior Producer Steve Spaleta oversees our space videos, with Diana Whitcroft as our Social Media Editor. We're burning up!'" The suits are in "poor" condition thanks to NASA. The ambitious human spaceflight program had been launched in response to President John F. Kennedy's goal, set in 1961, of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the decade. Elizabeth holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. I am assuming you're speaking of photos of the bodies, both in place and in autopsy. Image: NASA. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. As for the black channel tapes, you are correct. And I heard a couple months ago that the Langley storage had being cleaned out, and everything shipped down to the Cape to be stored with the Challenger debris in the LC34 silos? The early astronauts trusted that they could handle any situation that came their way. NASA Apollo Mission Apollo-1-- Report Title Page. The exhibit was done in consultation with the astronauts' families. NASA Apollo Mission Apollo-1-- Investigation Apollo 204 Review Board Report The Baron Report Baron's Testimony Before Congress The Phillips Report Borman's Testimony Before Congress Borman Testimony to the House House Testimony Part 1 House Testimony Part 2 Borman Testimony to the Senate Senate Testimony Part 1 Senate Testimony Part 2 Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House and Office of the Vice-President of the United States, an exclusive conversation with aspiring space tourist (and NSYNC bassist) Lance Bass, speaking several times with the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches on two continents, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission. As NASA reports, on January 27, 1967, a fire during a preflight test for the Apollo 1 mission took the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. The Apollo spacecraft Command Module for the AS-204 mission is shown during preparation for installation of the crew compartment heat shield. It was a horrific way to go nonetheless, and the waves of grief affected everyone in the program. Posts: 2458From: U.K.Registered: Jul 2009. Elizabeth first got interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996, and still wants to be an astronaut someday. But, infamously, a fire in the pure oxygen environment of the Apollo 1 spacecraft could not be compensated foreven by arguably NASA's best test pilot, Gus Grissom, veteran astronaut Ed White, and rookie Roger Chaffee. Originally founded in 1999, Space.com is, and always has been, the passion of writers and editors who are space fans and also trained journalists. The temperature of the flame and gas exiting from the fracture origin exceeded 1640 K (2500 degrees F). 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. The next transmission comes through as a muffled"I'm getting out" before screams can be heard. Posts: 3811From: Midwest, USARegistered: Jul 2005, Posts: 3413From: NetherlandsRegistered: Nov 2001, Posts: 2983From: Merritt Island, Florida, BrevardRegistered: Mar 2001. He helped dig up some air masks, and then joined the men trying to open the three-layer hatch. profile | register | preferences | faq | search, Posts: 210From: australiaRegistered: Feb 2008. Image: NASA "What I remember is that they were really. Although a rookie in space, he had spent years supporting the Gemini program, most publicly as CapCom on Gemini 4. The severity of that moment has become a footnote in the public consciousness, faded by the decades that have passed and overshadowed by the incredible achievements of the Apollo program that followed. He fought at Pearl Harbor, and in the Battle of Midway. We never really had any doubts. As for the blockhouse most of them on ICBM row are now used for storage or office space. 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. Then there was the hatch itself: designed to open inward (nearly impossible to do if the cabin pressure increases), and three-layered, making it a slow, burdensome process to open, and delaying the rescue efforts. The NASA photo archives at College Park are not nearly as complete and extensive as the film holdings. Opening the spacecrafts cumbersome hatch, under the best of circumstances, required a minimum of 90 seconds. "He would talk with a fake lisp to try to make people feel sorry for him to sell more peanuts," my father, his oldest son Randy, told me recently. All had gone well, and no one thought the next days test, when the capsule would rely on its own internal power for the first time, would prove fatal. "The hatch was loose but they couldn't get it out," Henry said in his testimony as part of the year-long investigation into the fire. The "fallen astronaut" plaque and statue, as photographed on the lunar surface. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! The limo was reconfigured by the Secret Service before it was retired. As a boy, Henry would pick cotton or sell boiled peanuts at baseball games to help make ends meet. Any chance of finding its origin? "We had it pushed down enough where we could barely see inside the command module and there was a lot of smoke and heat coming from the inside of the spacecraft. Hence the introduction of beta cloth into the Apollo program. Source: This document taken from the Report of Apollo 204 Review Board. Chris Kraft was monumental in creating Nasa's renowned Mission Control operation, which manages space flights. Posts: 1966From: Atlanta, GARegistered: Feb 2007, Posts: 3160From: Belfast, United KingdomRegistered: Feb 2002, Posts: 503From: Highland Heights, KYRegistered: Feb 2003, Posts: 239From: Sacramento, CARegistered: Oct 2004. I believe the entire spacecraft should be reassembled with the hatch on or off. The aft heatshield stainless-steel face sheets were melted and eroded. Three astronauts were killed when a rocket burst. It was a memorial to the astronauts who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration, who paved the way for crews like Apollo 15 to visit the moon, and return safely back home. Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? While it has been last year since I last perused the Apollo 1 material, and it is possible that additional photos are now available, in the past the crew photos have been very well protected from release. New York, After years of war tours, Henry was in a stopover in Detroit, sometime around 1943. The Apollo 1 crew two days before the fire. In the early days of the capsules design, engineers at NASA made another criticaland ultimately fataldecision. Enough said! Does that mean the inner and outer shells were crushed like a junk automobile and sent to a smelter? Grissom, White, and Chaffee's names are carved on the Space Mirror Memorial for astronauts who died on the job, at Cape Canaveral. They do seem consistent with the way the fire spread tho: it started under Grissom's (on the right) seat and on those images the suits are mainly burned in the lower area. The five men engaged the only two fire extinguishers on that level to douse the flames closest to the hatch. The fire reached the ceiling and sent "burning chunks of Teflon" flying off the spacecraft, Clemmons wrote in his essay. Heres how it works. The Apollo original film is still in Houston. For the astronauts, if they complained too loudly, there was also the threat of getting pulled off the mission. Dr. Berry's reports were also ruined by high atmospheric moisture. Rogers's actions that night earned him, and the other men who attempted the rescue, the NASA Medal for Exceptional Bravery, a rare honor given "for exemplary and courageous handling of an emergency by an individual who, independent of personal danger, has acted to prevent the loss of human life." We were sitting there, waiting for them to say what we knew they were going to say.". FILE - In this Feb. 17, 1967 file photo, the Apollo 1 capsule, with black smudge marks visible on the heat shield, is lowered from its Saturn 1 booster at Cape Kennedy, Fla. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Complete photographic coverage is being maintained, color film being preferred since it permits more ready identification of components and their condition. Exterior of the spacecraft in the white room, following the fire. This is the Apollo 1 Suit https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Apollo_1_-_Chaffee_in_Apollo_Block_I_space_suit.jpg. Yeah now that you mention it it seems unlikely that NASA would take pics with the corpses still inside. What I have read suggests displaying the outer shell only. A quality control inspector at NASA, Rogers had been working during a routine launch simulation test for Apollo 1, the first manned Apollo mission, at Cape Canaveral in Florida. "Nobody really said anything for 15 minutes, until they got the hatch open. On the other hand I can understand why no serious institution would want this on their website. Those are not available to researchers. The hatch was closed at about 2:42pm andat6:30:54pm a volt anomaly was recorded. NSFW tag please, I dont even subscribe and this is showing up in my feed. But he never spoke about the fire at home with his family. Engineering changes were still in progress as NASA prepared for the countdown test. This may sound like an obvious mistake, but as Cox and Murray point out in their chronicle of the Apollo program, pure oxygen is necessary in orbit. 05 in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building. Yet even amid this hectic schedule, engineers with the agency confidently conducted final design reviews on the Apollo capsule. In 1944, they were married and two years later, at the tender age of 23, Henry became a fatherthough he was away on duty at the time. 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. Everybody was working to get us there. His suit is also the most damaged. Grissom ended up in the water and was rescued by a helicopter (which at first tried, in vain, to pick up the spacecraft; the spacecraft was later pulled from the ocean floor in 1999). By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. This page may contain sensitive or adult content that's not for everyone. Posts: 1624From: Bethpage, N.Y.Registered: Jul 2002, Posts: 108From: Wilmington, NC, New HanoverRegistered: Aug 2004. Reply . Posts: 43576From: Houston, TXRegistered: Nov 1999. The agency also met Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon in 1969, during Apollo 11. To understand the whirlwind in which NASA existed in the mid-1960s, consider that Gordon Cooper flew the final Mercury mission in May 1963. The CM cabin structure was penetrated in the aft bulkhead beneath the environmental control unit and the aft sidewall. The loss of structural integrity at these penetrations occurred after the primary rupture. This blocked about half of the hatch opening, restricting our entry into the craft until we could get the hatch to finish falling. The risk, of course, is that pure oxygen under high pressure requires but a spark to ignite and rapidly burn. 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