Gizmodo: Remembering Apollo 1, NASA's First Major Disaster

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Remembering Apollo 1, NASA's First Major Disaster Jan 27th 2013, 19:00 46 years ago today, veteran astronaut Gus Grissom, first American spacewalker Ed White, and rookie Roger Chaffee were killed in a cabin fire during an Apollo 1 launch pad test. The first majorly fatal accident in NASA's history, the fire was caused in part by the cabin's pure oxygen atmosphere and a number of other dangerous design flaws that were correct over the 20 month delay that followed the incident. More »

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