[LadyCPlum]

Irony is, they replaced the hatches for the space program to make them more secure after Gus Grissom's hatch popped open when Liberty Bell 7 splashed down. The hatches used to be outward-opening and could be fitted with explosive bolts in case of an emergency. But as quick as that fire spread those guys didn't have a chance.

[Catsratz]

This German website has mis-spellings and misuse of English, but it seems to have valid information, and if correct, the astronauts lived and suffered HOURS after the fire began and they were horribly burned and gassed.
Excerpt (bolding mine):

Fourth countdown:

Smoke - short-circuit - breakout of fire in the capsule of Apollo 1

After another boarding of the capsule the atmosphere in the capsule is filled with pure oxygen and is put on over pressure.

(In: Courtney / Grimwood / Swenson: Chariots for Apollo: Chapter: Tragedy and Recovery;
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...205/ch9-2.html (2006)

Then the astronauts report smoke in the capsule. But now the ground test is not stopped (Wisnewski, p.102).

The monitors in the control center show a warming of the batteries on board, and this is an indication of a short-circuit.

(In: Time, 10 Feb 1967; Wisnewski, p.107)

[Also when the control center realizes the warmed batteries the ground test is not stopped. Since this point of time the homicide is completed].

10 to 12 minutes after the first report of smoke fire is suddenly breaking out in the capsule (Wisnewski, p.98).

[10 to 12 minutes smoke are not enough for the CIA-NASA to stop this dangerous test].

The chained binding is burns well and is giving highly poisoned gases (Wisnewski, p.99).

According to a staff member of "North American Aviation", Mervin Holmburg, the astronauts try now to open the hatch from the inner side for 5 minutes, but in vain.

(Baron Report 1965-1966: http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/barron.html; Wisnewski, p.102).

The events at the end of the fire: Official version

According to the official version of the NASA the doctors came after 15 minutes after the outbreak of the fire and had difficulties to get the astronauts out of the capsule. The suits are said to have been glued with melted nylon.

(In: Courtney / Grimwood / Swenson: Chariots for Apollo: Chapter: Tragedy and Recovery;
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...205/ch9-2.html (2006) ; Wisnewski, p.99).

The version of the truth

Gilruth's resolution of a gagging order: No information comes out

Shortly after the opening of the hatch, 5 minutes after the outbreak of the fire, the head of the Manned Spaceflight Center, Robert Gilruth takes the resolution for a gagging order over Cape Canaveral and the control center. By this no information can pass from the Cape outside and any contact to outside is broken (Wisnewski, p.103-104).

According to rumours there had died only one astronaut first (Wisnewski, p.104).
No rescue for the yet living astronauts - pulmonary edema

The astronauts are kept in the burnt space capsule for hours (Wisnewski, p.103).

[Since this point of time it's murder actually].

The astronauts in the burnt space capsule develop a pulmonary edema (fluid retention in the lung) and they don't get first aid: The unconscious astronauts are inhalating toxic smoke on and on. The pulmonary alveoli become cavernous and permeable by the acid gases. By this he broken pulmonary alveoli cannot absorb the inhaled air any more and the astronauts are slowly suffocating. Wisnewski: "The human drowns in his own body fluid."

(orig.: "Der Mensch ertrinkt an seiner eigenen Körperflüssigkeit").

This is a pulmonary edema (Wisnewski, p.103).

The minimum time to develop a pulmonary edema are 15 to 20 minutes. The formation of a pulmonary edema by inhalation of war gas which are similar to the gases by burnt plastics lasts several hours. By this it can be concluded that the astronauts were alive yet for several hours after opening the capsule, but at least 10 or 15 minutes, and first aid had been possible and could have been successful to save the lives of the astronauts (Wisnewski, p.103).

According to Scott Grissom (son of astronaut Grissom) the people aboard were not doing anything because they did not want to change something on the site of crime.

(Scott Grissom Jun.; In: A newsgroup, 3 Aug 2001; Wisnewski, p.103)

By this the astronauts stay for hours in the burnt capsule and fight for hours against the death until they all are dead (Wisnewski, p.103). The doctors coming shortly after the fire are said that the astronauts were dead, and by this the doctors are leaving the site.

(In: Kennan / Harvey: Mission to the Moon; N.Y. 1969, p.36; Wisnewski, p.104)

The doctors are not allowed to determine the death of the astronauts, and first aid is not permitted either. Two hours after the opening of the hatch NASA is announcing the dead of all three astronauts (Wisnewski, p.104).

[And with this all direct witnesses of the accident are murdered].

Website link: http://www.geschichteinchronologie.c...auts-ENGL.html

[minka1]

Amazing info you shared.

[durt]

Testing in a pure oxygen atmosphere can be very risky.
In that capsule, anything flammable, combined with an ignition source, i.e. electrical short circuit, would burn, at almost an explosive rate! The reaction time for a rescue was probably seconds, not minutes. NASA learned a lot from that accident, sad that it cost them their lives.

[Catsratz]

If anyone has a link to an Unsolved Mysteries episode or anything like that, I'd sure appreciate seeing it. I admit to being slightly obsessed after seeing those pictures posted here - it personalized the tragedy - then finding out Grissom's son claims he was murdered.

I mean, why would they have done it in such a terrible way, along with two others, publicly, over just some critical remarks he'd made? Why didn't they just terminate him from the space program? It would have been easy, being that he was nearly 41 years old at the time.

Why didn't they at least get him somewhere alone, if they were so bent on killing him, and without causing him and the two others to suffer so gruesomely, for hours if this German website is correct?

It's really got me going

[Airbornemama]

Originally Posted by soares ↗

hahahaha they got fucked

Why would ANYONE be SO ignorant as to make A post like this!?!......Oh, I answered my own question,...Because your IGNORANT!!!!

[ilalsm]

Where did you read or hear about the Challenger passenger compartment? would be an interesting read.

[Spiffyfable]

Tragedy... Perhaps,

It is my opinion that it was an intentional malfunction or fuck up which implies murder from the higher powers that be

[LERK]

[xCellarxDoorx]

Awesome. Never seen this.