Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us on the Moon Walters Ryan S.
Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us on the Moon Walters Ryan S. On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket…
Specifikacia Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us on the Moon Walters Ryan S.
Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us on the Moon Walters Ryan S.
On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than a month away. But little did they know, nor did anyone else, that once they entered the spacecraft that cold winter day they would never leave it alive. All three astronauts were experienced pilots and had dreams of one day walking on the moon.
The Apollo program would be perilously close to failure before it ever got off the ground.But rather than dooming the space program, this tragedy caused the spacecraft to be completely overhauled, creating a stellar flying machine to achieve the program's primary goal: putting man on the moon.Apollo 1 is a candid portrayal of the astronauts, the disaster that killed them, and its