Apollo 1 fire rocked NASA, U.S., world 50 years ago: 60-Second Know-It-All
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- 50 years ago tomorrow, we were racing to the Moon full-speed. But when the Apollo 1 spacecraft burst into flames and killed three astronauts, our resolve faced a terrible test.
The fact that he says “two of these astronauts were genuine space heroes, while not including Chaffee, what some dont realize is just because he may not have been as known as Grissoms and White, he also still took the liberty to give up his life without knowing. Not only 2, but all 3 were GENUINE heroes.
No,they were mocking praying
They died for nothing. We never went to the moon.
@@that1electrician troll
@@that1electrician What makes you believe they even died?
THAAAAANK YYYOU LLaura!!!
Very Verrry Well Said!!!!
What they experienced was so horrific that the only way to really get it wrong is to not remember it at all.
died from toxic fumes, this report says. I don't suppose cabin temps reaching 2,500 degrees in a matter of seconds that caused third degree burns over 1/4 to 1/2 of their bodies had anything to do with it. I just stumbled upon a video of this subject, i had heard of 3 astronauts perishing in a launch pad fire before and never gave it much thought, but I have this morbid curiosity to look back at tragedies like the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald or the crash of flight 255 and look at all the evidence and try to figure out what happened, or the two shuttle disasters and learn what happened. So I stumbled on 'the horrible Apollo 1 disaster' and have looked into this. One of the photos shocked and disturbed me,, and it takes a great deal to do that, working in the trauma unit in the ER of a local hospital . The pictures of the three bodies. In 2 of them, the two men that got out of the chairs they were strapped in, the face shields were either fogged and affected by the fire/heat that you cannot see their faces. However, the poor guy who stayed strapped in his seat, you can see his face. His eyes, what appears to be a charred noseand face, and the whites ofhis upper and lower teeth in a mouth that was agasp, wide open like he was screaming in utter agony. The look frozen onhis face and in his eyes was one of utter pain, terror, and anguish. I am surprised they allowed that photo to be published. Also, they never did discover exactly where the fire originated but a spark under 29 psi would have been like an explosion and the whole cabin was pressurized with pure oxygen as wellas their suits and bodies as the goal was to remove any chance of any nitrogen entering the astronauts to avoid this condition known as the 'bends' (nitrogen bubbles) from forming in the blood stream. But at least this clip does not cut to commercials like the 'rush to launch' challenger documentary. And who would want their products or services associated with tragedies like this? I mean, it's like they are talking about 6 of the 7 emergency oxygen masks being turned on and how the crew of the shuttle died on impact or some other detail and they cut to some car commercial, or some other clown telling us the world is coming to an end , etc While I may not disagree, who wants their ads to come during this revelations that some may view as disturbing??
@@kingbee48185 You mean they consider how sponsors will react when developing television programming? I thought that ended in the 1950s when cigarette companies quit sponsoring entire programs. They do that with news and documentaries too?
May I ask what is your avatar pic? It's really cool I like it. I know it is going to sound ignorant of me, I'm jot nearly as smart as allot of yall but is that some kinda diagram of sorts regarding the earth and/or moon? I like the color 2.
Also, a very dense and meaningful comment. Well said.
@@KusHNinja I made it in Microsoft Paint or something like that. It's a black circle inside a green square, but CZcams makes everything a circle, so now it's a circle inside a circle.
American heroes who paved the way for a better tomorrow.
UMMM NO- THE WOLRD IS SUPER FCKD UP 😃
MrCalverino i guess he meant that them dying is a lesson learned to prevent future
@@lovelylilac0 yeah, see, that's supposed to be taken care of before people die. better yet, MAN can stop pretending they can survive without their mother earth. she made you. you are tied to her. deal with it bros.
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 people go to space for the sake of exploration, to understand our universe better and study about other planets for whether not it can support life.
@@kellanfeng yeah, thanks for the boysplain. lol. you still can't live without the earth.
They didn't die of smoke. The audio from the cockpit and what they found when they opened that door was horrifying. The screams from the audio and one of the men clearly screaming, "We're burning up!", followed by a scream of agony discounts that. WHen they opened the door, they were almost unidentifiable, and they were melted to the cockpit and they couldn't move the corpses.
They only had 3rd degree burns. The fire burnt the life support tubes to their suits and the smoke got into the life support, asphyxiating them.
Actually sir you're very wrong, they died from a heart attack due to the fire that melted the oxygen tubes that fed them lean air causing them to breath carbon monoxide, their corpses were lter burned in the capsule but they didn't die of burning
@@kendrewcodes9334 nope they inhaled carbon monoxide which is deadly and not y the smoke
@@DavidHernandez-kc1el yes but carbon monoxide takes more than just seconds to kill someone, in full truth, the cabin was put in 100% air, and a single spark could have the ENTIRE thing to burn up. Then again the carbon monoxide still could have been a threat.
@@mr.megalodonmegalodon758 I was thinking even at high concentration, it takes a few minutes for CO2 to get you.
I was thinking it had to be the fire, based on the tapes
May those men of Apollo 1 rest in peace.
Murdered
Well this was quite RUDE
What?
Oh never mind
You are right , it isnt the facts that the narrator says that are rude, but HOW he says it, especially near the end.
Wtf
Well, he did say it was “one of NASA’s darkest times,” and, “this was a national tragedy.” But the comment about them being, “only a memory,” is not correct.
Grissom reported a sour smell in the oxygen that was from a spark/arc able to happen from the teflon coated insulation having broken. There were several wires which through being moved over and over cracked their insulation. Had this not occurred the wiring likely would have been checked over before flight and caught. However the plugs out test was not considered life threatening. So the test was allowed to continue after only an hour of checking, despite no cause for the odor in astronaut Grissom's oxygen being found.
The screams of Chaffee is haunting
Who's bright idea was it to pump the cabin with 100% oxygen? The tiniest of sparks could light that whole thing into a flying fireball.
Manny the cabin was filled with pressurised oxygen in response to previous incidents where crew in other vessels and aircraft had become disoriented due to nitrogen narcosis. There had even been a case of an astronaut becoming confused due to his pure oxygen breathing circuit being contaminated with nitrogen from the cabin atmosphere.
@@1986lazarus 78% of the air we breathe is nitrogen. And the solution to the Apollo 1 fire was to fill the cabin with 60% oxygen and 40% nitrogen, which gets purged during the launch. So I am confused by your comment. They had used 100% oxygen at that pressure all throughout the Mercury and Gemini programs without an incident, so they never thought twice about it, which was an obvious oversight.
@@1986lazarus I can tell you, that you get a bit disoriented breathing high oxygen concentration if a hyperbaric chamber is any indication...
100% pressurised oxygen was not cheap. There would have been a life critical reason to justify the cost. Also, it's cheaper to take pure oxygen and reinfuse CO2-scrubbed air for re-breathing than it is to take loads of nitrogen-rich air and jettison every exhaled breath. After all, that's why mountaineers sometimes use rebreathers - to lighten the load and improve oxygen delivery efficiency. And SCUBA divers use it to reduce nitrogen narcosis (which happens at high pressures exclusively), as well as to reduce the total amount of air that needs to be taken. As for pressurisation - that's necessary because even in a pressurised cabin, air pressure drops with launch so oxygen under pressure at sea level becomes oxygen at normal pressure in space.
Well oxygen isn't flammable.
He sounds so light hearted and matter of fact. Weird
It's supposed to be a 1 minute presentation. I thought it was fine, if you want 1 hour documentary, look elsewhere.
prob just some creepy grandkid of the guys who murdered grissom and crew for speaking out about the incompetence of NASA.
And relegates the memory of the Apollo astronauts to “a memory”, perhaps not realizing whoever wrote that script made a pathetic choice of words; no one from the heroic space age-certainly not Grissom’s, White’s and Chaffee’s colleagues nor the engineers and flight directors working with them would disagree that the lost astronauts knew they were testing a flawed spacecraft but continued with the “plugs out” test-the tragic end of which all at NASA feel taught the hard lessons necessary to achieve the success Apollo finally had.
@@mrsantana9094 The timing was fine; the poor word choice and inflection leaves much to be desired.
@@carlatteniese2 Couldn't agree more. Whoever wrote this script indeed made a pathetic choice of words, and they are probably clueless and ignorant to the fact that they did anything wrong.
I always thought that the reason they couldn't open the hatch was because it opened inwards so the pressure would stop them
Either way the pressure stopped them but
If you're up to it, if you'd like I'd listen to the original recordings, you don't have to honestly and depending on circumstance they can be really sad to downright spine-chilling
But still don't if you get easily upset by this
I was scrolling in tik toc when I saw the corpses and the sound of there deaths... not a pleasant thing
They should be remembered as hero's
YEA NOT MEMORIES
No
@@user-kc6qr5eo1k tankie 💩
@@playerone988 tankie 💩
@@AgentPerry8018 im not a tankie
do you feel anything while talking about those great men like that.... so salty
What do you mean
It's like tomonews they make fun of death people.
Agreed. Not the way to present a documentary about this appalling tragedy.
@@malcolmabram2957 How else is he supposed to say it in 60 seconds? If you want him to pause and talk with more emotion then it's gonna have to be longer than 60 seconds, but then this video wouldn't exist.
@@GR8APE69 This is of course utter bullshit, with changing up a few words you can make it respectful or at least neutral instead of mocking
When the ad before the video is longer than the video itself...
well that was heartless
Not very nice, hate the callous culture we have become.
What do you mean
Stop being overdramatic
what a perfetic video - a insult to a awful tragedy
The hell does "perfetic" mean??
@@tomaccino apparently according to urban dictionary it’s British slang for something that is pathetic but also perfect.
@@tomaccino Latin. Means perfetto in Italian and ice cream in english
They didn´t die within seconds, they burned to death...
bro get ur facts straight, the fire burned through the pipes feeding them oxygen causing them to inhale very dangerous chemicals like carbon monoxide causing them to have a heart attack and die instantly, of course, while they were dead the fire kept going and fused the nylon and the seats so they just found three melted blobs
@@DavidHernandez-kc1el But bro, they talked to mission control that there is a fire and that they have to exit the simulator. The mission control also heard there screams so they can’t die in seconds, right?
@@DavidHernandez-kc1el Carbon monoxide won't kill you that fast. But there are other toxic things that can kill you (thankfully) very fast, if you have to go on a burning capsule-- in a few breaths at the most. CO2 takes a good 5 min or so.
God bless the memory of these brave men!
The screams, the horrific screams! The door was stuck. They were barbecued alive.
Man the audio from Chaffee *OPEN HER UP AERRRRGGH* gives me chilles and the fact that they suffocated and burned alive is just sad.
They actually passed out from gas before they burned according to NASA’s report
They were unconscious before they died
It's actually "WE'RE BURNING UP" not "OPEN HER UP". Either way the autopsy report stating that they did not suffer or feel pain during the ordeal and that they just 'went off to sleep' or 'asphyxiated' (it takes longer than 17 seconds to asphyxiate, even when breathing cyanide) is a conscience-salving falsehood that completely squelches the reality claimed by Chaffee literally with his final recorded words.
@@catherinespark them saying he felt none of it is def a lie, but they may have died pretty quickly
"Nasa would indeed put men on the moon but by then the apollo 1 crew were what they are today, memories"
Guy trying to roast the poor guys (no pun intended)
At the Cosmosphere, there’s the entrance to the pod, and I was given a tour, and its said that those three crewmembers still haunt it to this day
Wow.. this was rude as.
Toxic smoke killed them? You can hear them screaming from the fire in other recordings. The main stream media reported they felt no pain.
A confined space like that, no wonder the smoke killed them. Fire filled up and ate the oxygen, melted their breathing tubes and exposed them to the toxic smoke amd gases. As someone who has lost a friend to this exact thing, I can imagine how fast that must have killed them
In the 1980's, two different elementary school teachers taught us that the reason was because of flammable glue used on Velcro products. Did anyone else get told that? I have never heard anyone else mention it.
That was heartless.
no soul in his voice yeah
I agreed up until you started trash talking them.
What "trash talk"?
When was that?
What do you mean by "trash talking," exactly?
A Memory?? Bro do us a favour and it a sharp rock.
this video was really well made
“Well that wasn’t going to happen” Wtf bro
Pure oxygen environment, would you expect less ?
How do they survive 220db ?
i didnt read the part saying "60 secound know it all"
so i was
A : impressed that he got to the point imidiatly.
B : had everything i needed to know within 59 secounds.
I have a drink and say a prayer for these three brave men every year because I was born on the day they died .
One thing people don't know is that the three astronauts partied the night before
What has that got to do with anything?
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 fun fact i guess
100% oxygen made possible breathing while having significant lower interior capsule air pressure - this did save a lot of weight on the structure of the capsule. All flights with Mercury and Gemini programs been done with 100% without incidents.
What a horribly narrated segment. It's like you've watched too many meme-filled video game clips and think that's how all CZcams videos should be narrated.
Hello from the depth
they saved a lot of people imagine if this would have happened on a space shutle all 14 or so crew would be doomed
It wasn't on the pad it was a test
Why they didint use the launch escape tower ?
THEY DIDNT HAVE ONE
The launch escape tower wouldnt have done anything. The fire started inside the cabin and they were trapped.
@@GavinDoesObjectShows they did but it wouldn't have helped
whats with the music
I'd love to know and hear their last transmission. and film of the fire. these men were icons. the faulty wiring was the fault of some contractor. who was he/it. he should've been sent to prison for life.
the last transmissions are on youtube.. not for the faint of heart
Why was there malintent or high risks of dangers being knowingly created by said contractor?
Bc punishment for accidents just doubles the pain and hardship, and even under circumstances of gross negligence there needs to be a benefit to any legal consequences other than satisfying people's lust for retribution (which in itself is a detriment that needs to be weighed in)
... Especially since when a person wants to end a man's life for a complete accident, you sometimes wonder if theyd smack a kid for, say accidentally dropping his pet hamster...but only if the hamster was hurt. If not, well no harm no foul I guess?
I mean consequences for things can still happen without getting the law involved...
It was whomever decided to use 100% pure oxygen to blame for igniting but true there must have been a spark. I think the same person is to blame.
“Hey! We got a fire-“
“We got a bad fire in the cockpit!”
“We’re burning up!”
(Unintelligible Screams)
@@SuperPhunThyme9 you are spot on.
The "blame culture" does little to learn from mistakes.
It also creates a culture that lacks trust, and a culture where mistakes are hidden.
I was an aircraft engineer for 15 years and aviation is pretty good in most places at having a "just culture" where lessons are to be learned from mistakes and actions taken to ever prevent something similar.
There ARE consequences in the event of something, but they are weighed up by how much of a factor they were.
For example, if I did some wiring that started a fire in the cockpit, they would first find out how the wiring came to be the source of ignition.
1-What was the failure mode? Overheating, poor installation, overloading, misuse, chafing/pinching.
2-Were the designed material specs adequate? Current rating, wire gauge, circuit protection etc.
3-Were the materials themselves in good condition? How long had had wire been stored for before use, and in what conditions.
4-How had the process of installation and testing been carried out?
5-What inspections took place?
6-What organisational pressures may have been involved? Too short a time, too little resources, overworked installer or designer.
7-what environmental factors? Was the work area adequate, was the lighting adequate? Were the tools adequate and in good working order?
8-Personal factors. Was the installer distracted? Were they ill? Had they been sleeping OK? Did they have troubles outside of work? Are they actually medically fit for the job? (Eyesight, colourblindness etc)
All the above factors would be considered.
All things found would be actioned to prevent reoccurrence.
The installer may need re training, might need to monitor their fatigue, might need disciplinary action, or even might need their work inspecting every time.
The company might have to increase time for installations, increase headcount, buy better tooling, reduce/cap working hours, increase inspections.
Could the materials have been stored differently? Or had a shorter shelf life.
Then, the design may need to be looked at, could there be a different method to use, or material?
Could the wiring be better protected from damage?
Lots of things to learn, overall the installer would only face employment or legal consequences in line with their involvement.
So, only willful negligence or rule breaking would result in dismissal or a lawsuit.
Making a mistake, would result in lesser consequences such as disciplinary warning, re training or increased inspections for example.
A VERY healthy safety culture where lessons are learned.
Now I'm an engineer in the rail industry.
It does not have that culture....
People get sacked for genuine mistakes.
This in turn has lead to a culture of fear and mistrust, possibly even people hiding mistakes.
NOT learning from mistakes just means that somebody else could do the same thing again with the same, or worse outcome.
the depressing part is, it never even took off.
It was never supposed to. It was always just what they called a plugs out ground test - meaning it was just a test of the systems while completely on internal power. Not connected to the tower electrically. Or rather - I think it actually was connected, but the conditions of being on internal power were simulated. It wasn't going anywhere.
@@willoughbykrenzteinburg ohh ok im not really familiar with this stuff
It would have been nice if the person doing the voice-over had taken a breath between talking. It would have been much easier to take in and appreciate.
why does the narrator lowkey cook them in this
no pun intended 🫣
holy moly
Pure oxygen? What were they thinking?
Look up how re-breathers work, and why re-breathers are used. Also look up why air to be breathed in space must be hyperbaric at sea level pre-launch. All the answers are there.
The very first space disaster of the very first apollo
If the fire didn’t happen, the Apollo 1 should be after the Apollo 11
Cuz I like both Apollo 11 and Apollo 1
But I liked Apollo 11 the most
Now its 55 years
I remember this was in the 3rd grade when it happened
They be ashamed at how little more we've progressed since Apollo 11
Rest in peace apollo 1 astouenats...
the spacecraft did not blow up, it was a fire in a test environment - simulated spacecraft
He said blew into flames but go on...
Good video, very informative
Sacrificed by NASA
Amen 🎉
Not only pure oxygen...but pressurized to 16psi
Is this Bryan Dechart's voice?
this is sad but it disturbing when you see the photo of the suit covered in blood and ashes
Que desgarrador
Heart Breaker..For a little 10 year old..Tommy..
They deserves it..they could have atleast add one woman in their group...male ego😂😂😂
Flash fire.
No one dies like that in seconds. Would have taken a few minutes to die.
Dead in 15 seconds… 15 seconds and three men burned to death
Guss grissom is from the same county as me. And I for one find the "but it didnt happen" comment EXTREMELY disrespectful
lol its facts, WOULD U LIKE HIM TO SAY '' OOOOH MY HOMIE GUS IS GETTING AN ANGELIC BLOWJOB ON THE MOON"
Who was the contractor who made those faulty wires?
If I was the one, than I would probably feel bad my entire life. I feel sorry for whoever was responsible, even tho I doubt that there was only one person involved in the checks and saftey of the project. But of course this should not have happened at any point. R.I.P.
👨🏻🚀👨🏻🚀👨🏻🚀 HEROES....
actually this video is 59 seconds long
Smoke killed? They were in a suit with a separate oxygen supply?!!!!?
is that connor, detroit become human??
you got to be more respectful...
NASA Management learned Squat from that Fire, 19 yrs later the same Mentality doomed Challenger, and by 2003, they still hadn't learned, and Columbia was lost
that's honestly false, they redesigned the entire Apollo capsule and risked losing the race to the moon to ensure that no more astronauts would die. Challenger and Columbia were entirely different incidents.
@@jeffreymyers4149
Most of the Changes made were already in the Block II design.
In all 3 accidents, Management was to Blame. Incompetence throughout
The smoke didn't kill them cause they had oxygen equipment on. So they literally just burned until they died or their equipment failed. Horrible death basically cooked them in an oven
HE WAS SPEAKING THE TRUTH☝🏾 WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THAT HAPPENS
Theres a difference between speaking the truth and being disrespectful..
Yes the truth, but how he says it is really a rude tone.
🤓☝
0:46
Nope.
Much worse.
In a pressurized pure O2 atmosphere everything burns.
The suit, the seat, wiring insulation, human flesh and bone.
Fire burned them in their seats, pressure blew out the hatch, fire consumed everything combustible.
Safety crew was there in 30 seconds but they were already dead.
Photos are not pleasant, and I warned you before you Google them or the audio.
I wonder if the nutty, creepy moon landing deniers believe that Grissom, White and Chaffee's death screams on Apollo One were recorded in a studio since the final transmissions are now online?
It's obvious can't you tell? Clearly the deaths were real but it wasn't an accident! It was stage the government did it on purpose!
I believe humans have been in orbit around Earth, but NOT to the moon.......
Not yet anyway.....
No. It's real. They died. And we stiLL didn't go to the moon.
@@jkbearhunter we haven't
@FBI grooms Kids no. It is not.
heroes forever ! hello from Switzerland Gstaad
That rooskie looks like givi
Rip
This guy sounds kinda like Bryan Dechart
They were murderer.
Was the narrator being chased by a Gator?
lol Hahaa.. yeah he sped through that video
😢
It's now shorts
4 years later, and you still haven't taken down this video after all the backlash? Sheesh.
His channel... He can do what he wants here as long as he's not harming anyone, whether people agree or not. It's the beauty of the Internet.
Astutely fantastic
bruh
These are the casualties of the cold war
Don't really understand all the negative comments regarding this video: history, by definition, can be little more than a memory, and far worse has happened than three volunteers dying in a fire. Grow up America, it's time to put your big pants on now. RIP to every man, woman, and child who has served the greater good.
The decision to go with a “100% Pure Oxygen Environment” has never been adequately explained to me.
To have a mixed gas environment would've required a MUCH more complex system. Also adding MUCH more weight.
@@mikem5043
Good explanation. So, basically, safety last.
Not really. The capsules had 100% 02, but pressurized to only about 5psi. The fire on the pad was at 16psi giving a much much more volitile environment
The fact they where praying as a joke and didn’t return is
S a d.
Proof?
This is the second time I have heard somebody say this under two incredibly tragic spacecraft accidents and I have never seen any bit of proof about that information.
Died from toxic fumes? Where the hell did you come up with that idea?
They Burned To Death.
That's what the official autopsy report says , that they died of smoke inhalation , I call bullshit , the released audio is quite telling, you can hear Roger Chaffee yelling that he's burning up then there is a bone chilling scream as he's burning alive .
@@rolsguitars yeah, the autopsy is bullshit.
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 YOU AGAIN? stop commenting bro, the skin is tough, it usually takes about 4 minutes to fully kill you. listen to the audiotapes. they stopped talking very quickly because they died from a heart attack after inhaling too much carbon monoxide, we're talking about a tiny capsule with fire with 100% pure oxygen, don' be stupid, you were not part of the autopsy, you're not a doctor just a stupid kid making assumptions of things not even in his era. you were not there shut up bro
@@DavidHernandez-kc1el the autopsy is bs. and not everyone on the internet is male, karen. lmfaoo
Hey!
Hey, We've got a fire in the cockpit!
*silence *
we got a bad fire!
WE'RE BURNING UP!
AAAAARGH *connection cuts *
This seems misleadingly soft-pedaled.
Such disrespect. You may want to go to VO school. Shocking
NASA killed these 3 astronauts. NASA wanted to kill Gus Grissum!
What fun this must have been for these 3!
Jerk