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

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  • Опубликовано: 4 дек 2024

Комментарии • 27

  • @MAB-y7o
    @MAB-y7o 10 месяцев назад +1

    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.

  • @krugerfuchs
    @krugerfuchs 2 года назад +12

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

    • @animula6908
      @animula6908 10 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @KnuckleHunkybuck
    @KnuckleHunkybuck 6 месяцев назад +1

    Imagine for a moment the challenge of designing a vessel to safely carry people to an environment that we've never been to, then safely return them.

  • @benharrison7855
    @benharrison7855 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @krugerfuchs
    @krugerfuchs 2 года назад +6

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

  • @howardroark6594
    @howardroark6594 5 месяцев назад +1

    Wally Schirra's "difficult behavior" was simply him trying to protect the crew in a test flight focused on safety following a fatal accident. There was a flight plan. The plan was being worked - each item accomplished on time in accordance with the mission rehearsals and simulations. In aviation accidents are largely caused when crews and managers deviate from standard procedures because someone is in a hurry. Imagine if, for example the TV camera (or related electrical systems) had caused a fatal accident on Apollo 7, then the whole Apollo program would have had another 21 month delay, would have missed the JFK challenge to reach the moon in a decade, and may have even simply been terminated. Schirra being difficult was him imposing discipline on the chaos coming from Houston. Schirra if he had made a mistake would not have cost any MC employee their lives but if Mission Control had provoked an accident in flight then there may have been 3 more deaths in an Apollo mission.

  • @Hazwaste63
    @Hazwaste63 2 года назад +10

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

    • @howardroark6594
      @howardroark6594 5 месяцев назад +1

      Exactly, Schirra by being difficult was maintaing the correct culture and high standards for flight safety.

  • @joslynscott466
    @joslynscott466 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @BBCWorldService
    @BBCWorldService  3 года назад +1

    Watch Season 1 of 13 Minutes to the Moon here: ruclips.net/p/PLz_B0PFGIn4f0xYPhOk0wIASOYE8-1Wbz

  • @Ronilac
    @Ronilac 7 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @pelican4294
    @pelican4294 7 месяцев назад +1

    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.

  • @NobodyQuiteLikeMe
    @NobodyQuiteLikeMe 3 года назад +7

    I feel like Grissom was murdered. But prolly not.

  • @wildandbarefoot
    @wildandbarefoot 3 года назад +8

    Grissolm was silenced

    • @josephweiss1559
      @josephweiss1559 3 года назад +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 года назад

      Huh

    • @martyzielinski1442
      @martyzielinski1442 2 года назад +4

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

    • @krugerfuchs
      @krugerfuchs 2 года назад

      @@martyzielinski1442 he may have been

    • @AndrewBlacker-wr2ve
      @AndrewBlacker-wr2ve Год назад

      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 Год назад +1

    Illuminati sacrifice

  • @twiff3rino28
    @twiff3rino28 2 года назад +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 6 месяцев назад

      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 2 года назад +4

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

    • @-danR
      @-danR Год назад +3

      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 10 месяцев назад

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

  • @dionst.michael1482
    @dionst.michael1482 Год назад

    Propaganda