A few weeks before the fire, Grissom presented his publisher with the first draft of “Gemini”, which was him talking about the Gemini program from the inside. The epilogue was him talking about the coming Apollo Program. It’s been a few years since I read it, but I recall him being enthusiastic about the coming missions. But, he did comment, briefly, his reservations about the pure oxygen environment that was still being used. A sobering moment from a man reputed to be a consummate engineer. But… Based on everything I have read and heard, that clip at then end of this was how he felt. He would have wanted what happened. We learned from the tragedy, and substantively redesigned the capsule to keep this from happening again. Losing those three good men was a devastating blow. But one we could recover from. Let’s never forget Grissom, Chaffee, and White.
Possibly the best testimonial for the rookie, Roger Chaffee: Gus Grissom, who was cranky and gruff and liked only a select few people, said that Roger was, quote, "a really great kid".
Recently, I learned from videos that Grissom was frustrated with the simulators not keeping up with the changes that the capsule were undergoing. Could this have been the reason for hanging a lemon on the simulator?
He was frustrated with the whole ball of wax and making snide comments right up to his death; you can hear him on the loop just before the haunting, "Fire...fire, we got a fire in spacecraft..." The lemon was more a of prop, used in a joking manner, to try to express his views about the problems with the spacecraft. Ice breaker, tension relief, comic relief, name your cliche, but probably all of them in reality. Unfortunately, his concerns were falling on deaf ears, a problem NASA has to this day. All 3 major NASA incidents, all of which occurred end of January beginning of February, share out-right and alarming similarities.
"Will you yield for a minute or two?" "Well, actually Mr. Chairman ..." "Thanks ..." [The operative word there, Mondale, is CHAIRMAN. So my "request" ain't really one.]
A few weeks before the fire, Grissom presented his publisher with the first draft of “Gemini”, which was him talking about the Gemini program from the inside. The epilogue was him talking about the coming Apollo Program. It’s been a few years since I read it, but I recall him being enthusiastic about the coming missions. But, he did comment, briefly, his reservations about the pure oxygen environment that was still being used. A sobering moment from a man reputed to be a consummate engineer. But… Based on everything I have read and heard, that clip at then end of this was how he felt. He would have wanted what happened. We learned from the tragedy, and substantively redesigned the capsule to keep this from happening again. Losing those three good men was a devastating blow. But one we could recover from. Let’s never forget Grissom, Chaffee, and White.
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Possibly the best testimonial for the rookie, Roger Chaffee: Gus Grissom, who was cranky and gruff and liked only a select few people, said that Roger was, quote, "a really great kid".
Gus would have respect for a U-2 pilot, yes.
One of the most poignant scenes in the greatest series of all time and my favorite part of the series. Not to be missed.
This was one of the finest movies I've ever seen.
Tv series.
@@IronMan-tk8uc Yep, you can tell he really saw it..
Idiot.
"End this witch hunt. Let us go to the Moon."
Hopefully by the end of the decade they will be there,
I can't hear that older actor's voice without hearing "Parkay margarine fooled even you Mother Nature!"
Recently, I learned from videos that Grissom was frustrated with the simulators not keeping up with the changes that the capsule were undergoing. Could this have been the reason for hanging a lemon on the simulator?
He was frustrated with the whole ball of wax and making snide comments right up to his death; you can hear him on the loop just before the haunting, "Fire...fire, we got a fire in spacecraft..."
The lemon was more a of prop, used in a joking manner, to try to express his views about the problems with the spacecraft. Ice breaker, tension relief, comic relief, name your cliche, but probably all of them in reality. Unfortunately, his concerns were falling on deaf ears, a problem NASA has to this day. All 3 major NASA incidents, all of which occurred end of January beginning of February, share out-right and alarming similarities.
"Will you yield for a minute or two?"
"Well, actually Mr. Chairman ..."
"Thanks ..."
[The operative word there, Mondale, is CHAIRMAN.
So my "request" ain't really one.]
Meet Senator Walter Mondale. Killing dreams and decency for political gain.
Then Nixon and pals REALLY did it. Not only did they kill Apollo and Skylab, they built in the failure of STS.
@@RideAcrossTheRiverI suppose if you want to play the great blame game, you might as well go big.
@@MarkJohnson-zy4fd Mondale tried to reign in spending on a useless program. Apollo served no purpose. Even its astronauts say that.
Do Congressional hearings ever accomplish anything other than wasting time?
Well the investigation ked to a different hatch design that could be opened faster in case of emergency.
@@thecanadianspaceadvocate1870 I doubt they needed a congressional investigation to come to that conclusion.