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alancake t1_j62pp4r wrote

My son and I are Apollo nuts. Reading about the Apollo 1 fire is heavy stuff. Gus Grissom was the man everyone at NASA wanted and expected to be the first man on the moon. It's a miracle that anything went ahead after the crew died.

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hgaterms t1_j641d1x wrote

Gus got a raw deal. His Mercury capsule sank and everyone blamed him for the failure. Then he gets the Apollo 1 seat and burns to death in a fire.

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