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euroderf on Nov 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: My $500M Mars rover mistake

> Still, I cannot imagine why anyone thought it was an acceptable risk, to use a 100% oxygen atmosphere with Apollo 1

Especially when, in prior experience there, asbestos had caught fire in the same situation (O2, low pressure).

hutzlibu on Nov 29, 2023 [–]

Wow, this detail I did not know yet. It just was a reckless rush to the moon, no matter the cost at this time. Without the deaths, nothing would have changed probably.

euroderf on Nov 29, 2023 | [–]

I read this in a book some years after the Apollo 1 (i.e. Apollo 204) fire, so I have no reason to doubt its provenance.

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