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Episode 199: Apollo 1

118 min • 22 juni 2022

There is always bound to be a first - the first person to climb Mount Everest, the first person to run a four-minute mile, the first woman to become president. But there are terrible firsts, and in this episode we discuss the first major tragedy of the American space race.

Videos:

Apollo 1 Audio - January 27th, 1967

Articles and books:

The Astronaut Wives Club, by Lily Koppel
Apollo 13, by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
Deke, by Deke Slayton and Michael Cassutt
Chasing the Moon, by Robert Stone and Alan Andres
A Man on the Moon, by Andrew Chaikin
Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us On the Moon, by Ryan S. Walters
Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, by Charles D. Benson and William Faherty
Chariots for Apollo: The NASA History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft to 1969, by Courtney Brooks, James Grimwood, and Loyd Swenson
Apollo 1 report
Apollo 1: The Fire
Space Safety Magazine: The Apollo 1 Fire
‘We have a fire in the cockpit!’ The Apollo 1 disaster 50 years later
American Institute of Physics: Trial by Fire: The Legacy of Apollo 1

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