Apollo 1

by Bryan

5 comments

1 Derek { 01.27.09 at 8:31 am }

There’s a really good article on the Apollo 1 tragedy at this site. It’s nice to see that people are still writing about and remembering these three.

2 Bryan { 01.27.09 at 9:21 am }

My Dad was in missiles in the Air Force, and my oldest friend in the local area was a technician at NASA after he left the Navy and worked on the project.

3 Jack K., the Grumpy Forester { 01.27.09 at 9:42 am }

…I can still remember the shock of the moment when the news first came out that day. After all the success of the Mercury and Gemini programs, to have one of the original Mercury Seven and the first American to walk in space die in an accident in their capsule on the launch pad was a stunner to a teenage space geek like me who had been getting up before dawn to watch launches and catching every splashdown I could since Alan Shepard in Freedom 7…

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4 Bryan { 01.27.09 at 10:40 am }

Gus Grissom seemed to have the worst luck in the program. It brought home the reality, that flying and space exploration is a dangerous line of work.

5 Kryten42 { 01.27.09 at 5:46 pm }

The Astronauts of the US Space program were (and are) amazingly courageous people. They were/are very intelligent and understood the risks and accepted them. I met a lot of brave people during my tour in Cambodia, but I doubt many of them would have taken the risks these Astronauts did, I’m not sure I would have… and I was pretty adventurous, thought with limits. 🙂

Given the tragedy of Apollo 1, it’s amazing there was an Apollo 2, etc! Brave people indeed.

Rest in Peace.