The Apollo 1 tragedy - 13 Minutes to the Moon Season 1, Episode 4 - BBC World Service

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  • Опубліковано 2 бер 2021
  • "You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy that changed Nasa forever.
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    Kevin Fong explores Nasa's darkest hour in 1967, to find out how it helped to shape the mission 21 months later as Neil Armstrong took man's first step on the Moon.
    Presented by: Kevin Fong
    Starring:
    George Abbey
    Walt Cunningham
    Glynn Lunney
    Gerry Griffin
    John Aaron
    Jerry Bostick
    Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project:
    Chris Kraft
    Gene Kranz
    Wally Schirra
    George Jeffs
    Courtesy of CBS News:
    Gus Grissom
    Ed White
    Roger Chaffee
    Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 24

  • @krugerfuchs
    @krugerfuchs Рік тому +11

    Gus said it wasn't ready you didn't listen to him

    • @animula6908
      @animula6908 3 місяці тому

      He got in there under his own power. Laying blame isn’t really a problem-solving skill. It appeals to the part of human nature that delights in problems happening.

  • @user-zx6oj7uz8w
    @user-zx6oj7uz8w 4 місяці тому

    I worked with the doctor who was monitoring the crews vital signs during this tragedy. He said, thanks be to God it was fast. I met the doctor several years after this event when we were both working in an emergency clinic.

  • @pelican4294
    @pelican4294 Місяць тому

    Gus was very vocal about the shortcomings of the rocket systems. Some say this occurred to silence him. It’s hard to imagine that there was no way to quickly open the hatch from the inside. This could’ve saved their lives.

  • @Hazwaste63
    @Hazwaste63 2 роки тому +8

    Gene Kranz blamed the organization and culture. Same factors were later blamed for Challenger and Columbia. Wonder if they were ever corrected.

  • @krugerfuchs
    @krugerfuchs Рік тому +3

    What changed Wally was that his close friend Gus had been killed

  • @benharrison7855
    @benharrison7855 9 місяців тому +1

    Space travel has always been a gamble, either it’s safe and goes according to plan or minor barriers result in tragedy. Just like what’s been explained here and The Challenger.

  • @joslynscott466
    @joslynscott466 Рік тому

    Excellent. I wish everyone would realize that the end of the decade was December 31, 1970. Yes, 1970. The very first year recorded was 1 not 0. So the 60s-- and every decade go from 1 to 0. The first year of the new millium was 2001. Stanley Kubrick, director of the movie 2001, had it right.

  • @NobodyQuiteLikeMe
    @NobodyQuiteLikeMe 2 роки тому +7

    I feel like Grissom was murdered. But prolly not.

  • @BBCWorldService
    @BBCWorldService  3 роки тому +1

    Watch Season 1 of 13 Minutes to the Moon here: ua-cam.com/play/PLz_B0PFGIn4f0xYPhOk0wIASOYE8-1Wbz.html

  • @Ronilac
    @Ronilac Місяць тому

    Wally was good when everything was smooth... after accident he lost composure... first hurdle and no more Wally

  • @wildandbarefoot
    @wildandbarefoot 2 роки тому +8

    Grissolm was silenced

    • @josephweiss1559
      @josephweiss1559 2 роки тому +3

      Grissom was not silenced. He was the Commander. On the final day before the accident, Grissom took a lemon from a tree and,hung it on a simulator because it kept crashing.

    • @wide_awake
      @wide_awake 2 роки тому

      Huh

    • @martyzielinski1442
      @martyzielinski1442 Рік тому +3

      There always has to be ONE like you, eh bikerjohn? This thread contains TWO of you!

    • @krugerfuchs
      @krugerfuchs Рік тому

      @@martyzielinski1442 he may have been

    • @AndrewBlacker-wr2ve
      @AndrewBlacker-wr2ve Рік тому

      Nope.
      No proof not evidence.
      But you're a conspiracy theorist.
      And conspiracy theorists are tiny, insignificant losers that have never accomplished anything.
      Learn your place, understand your value, and grow up.

  • @brantk81
    @brantk81 11 місяців тому +1

    Illuminati sacrifice

  • @twiff3rino28
    @twiff3rino28 Рік тому +3

    The guy at North American who designed the wiring and the other guy who installed in initiating wiring should have been convicted of manslaughter.

    • @twokingz04
      @twokingz04 5 днів тому

      NASA was to blame as well. With all that exposed wiring and velcro, along with the spacecraft having a hundred percent oxygen at sea level, they were warned that it was very dangerous to do that. But because they had gotten away with it during the Mercury and Gemini Programs they got complacent. People forget this was all new to them. Alot of what they were doing was simply trial and error. Which was the main reason they wanted test pilots because test pilots always flew new aircraft technology.

  • @jennlynn8173
    @jennlynn8173 Рік тому +4

    Can't watch with all the bubble crap in the way 😡😡😡😡

    • @-danR
      @-danR 9 місяців тому +2

      It's basically a podcast, but yeah. This is an intensely visual subject, and strict audio, especially for things like a launch feels... awkward.
      "In this brief clip..." 33:03 . OK, gimme a clear _view_ of the clip.

    • @animula6908
      @animula6908 3 місяці тому

      It’s a podcast. Idk why they even added the visuals they did.

  • @dionst.michael1482
    @dionst.michael1482 Рік тому

    Propaganda