Mar 19, 2020 · In a spacecraft review meeting held with Shea on August 19, 1966 (a week before delivery [of Apollo 1]), the crew expressed concern about the amount of flammable material (mainly nylon netting and Velcro) in the cabin, which both astronauts and technicians found convenient for holding tools and equipment in place.

Oct 22, 2013 · This site writes to say. Apollo 2 and 3: There were no craft named Apollo 2 or 3. Apparently after the Apollo-1 craft was destroyed during a pre-flight test at Cape Canaveral, the first few mission (through Apollo-6) were unmanned missions to test various aspects of the Apollo program - Launch vehicle, CSM, LM, and their inter-play.

Jun 17, 2020 · The photograph below shows the first Apollo crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee wearing silly hats and acting less seriously than typical NASA publicity photos. All three were later killed in the Apollo 1 fire.

Jul 2, 2019 · Apollo 1's (AS-204) Saturn IB rocket was taken down from Launch Complex 34, later reassembled at Launch complex 37B and used to launch Apollo 5, an unmanned Earth orbital test flight of the first lunar module, LM-1, in January 1968 [65]. The Wikipedia article cites the following primary reference:

Jul 18, 2021 · The delay was not only the hold for investigation. More time was needed to design and build a new hatch, to develop a fire proof cloth for the space suits outer layer, to modify the suits and to remove all flammable material from the Command Module and replace it …

The Apollo 1 fire modified how that pure oxygen atmosphere was attained, but it did not change that the breathing atmosphere was transitioned to pure oxygen shortly after launch. The issues associated with a pure oxygen breathing atmosphere made NASA shift to having some nitrogen in the Skylab breathing atmosphere, but not much.

Mar 19, 2020 · The extra measures taken to bring the Apollo 13 crew home safely only cost, I would estimate, a couple of days worth of overtime pay for a couple of hundred staffers (if even that; the mission as a whole, and thus the costs of monitoring the mission, was shortened by a couple of days) -- not pocket change, but quite a small investment relative ...

Sep 30, 2024 · The phrase - usually in its longer form, or sometimes just "Five by" - appears quite often in the Apollo Flight Journal and Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, e.g. apropos of the Apollo 11 landing: 102:17:27 Aldrin: Houston, Eagle. How do you read? 102:17:29 Duke: Five-by, Eagle. We're standing by for your burn report. Over.

Jul 17, 2019 · The Apollo portable oxygen ventilator (POV) (fig. 50) is designed primarily to maintain a crewman or a test subject in a preoxygenated state before launch or altitude testing. Because of the decompression involved, nitrogen must be purged from the subject to avoid the bends, and it is imperative that the subject be maintained in a 100-percent ...

Feb 17, 2019 · Apollo did not leave at escape velocity. Rather, the trans-lunar injection gave considerable extra speed in order to make the trip much faster, so the lowest velocity was reached a few tens of thousands of miles short of the moon (where the gravity from the moon and the earth are equal), in the low thousands of miles per hour.