It was not until the hatch cooled significantly were the engineers able to approach and open the capsule. Therefore, it wasn't blown off. Flames which were seen on the outside of the craft were escaping through rents torn in the craft by the terrific overpressure caused by the fire. Unfortunately, I wasn't taping, so I couldn't rewind to check. Conversations between Houston and the moon, or spacecraft near the moon, don't have the two-second delay that should be present in conversation.
Radio waves travel at lightspeed, and the moon is a little over one light-second from Earth.
Therefore, Houston talks, a second later Apollo hears and responds, and a second after that Houston hears Apollo. So, from houstons perspective, there is a two-second pause between the end of Houston's question and the start of Apollo's answer. Pete Conrad is play by someone else. Everything you submit becomes mine and you grant me the right to use your name in any future publication by me. And finally, due to the volume of mail received at Nitpicker Central, your submission may or may not be acknowledged.