# Talk:Apollo 1

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The former 'Bunker Hill AFB' was renamed for him. 166.205.107.78 (talk) 01:53, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

It's a memorial to Grissom, not to Apollo 1, so it's covered in Gus_Grissom#Memorials. TJRC (talk) 02:11, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Marty Croney worked there and took me and Stan Skaret on a tour and showed us the charred capsule ‘that had just arrived’! 73.83.234.103 (talk) 21:41, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

I assume you're contesting the "Destroyed January 27, 1967" claim? If so, do you have reliable sources to support your claim? Personal knowledge is not verifiable to our readers or editors and therefore not acceptable, even if you're an Expert.  - FlightTime (open channel) 22:22, 21 June 2022 (UTC) do not change this article or talk
please  remember to celebretate the birthdays of the 3 astrounuat and the  day they lost there lives. 70.124.19.92 (talk) 18:08, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Of course, it's well-known that the ruined capsule still existed after the fire and underwent painstaking analysis. The photographs of it in this article were taken on January 28. In the context of the infobox, "Destroyed January 27, 1967" clearly means rendered incapable of spaceflight or of supporting the lives of the astronauts aboard at the time. Gildir (talk) 06:30, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

From what I have read elsewhere, the internal oxygen pressure was 5 PSI, which was much lower than the 14.7 PSI outside. So why does this article describe it as high pressure? Also the plug door would be easier, not harder, to open outward, but rather was hard to open because of the closure method (fasteners and the like).
As an aside, all three lives could have been saved if they had equipped the launch tower with a flushing hose having an explosive head to penetrate the skin wherever it was placed in order to blow in cooling and smothering N2 and suck out the O2 along with any combustion products in a matter of seconds. But then they thought “what could possibly go wrong?”  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.41.92.239 (talk) 06:50, 27 November 2022 (UTC) 

Hope you don't mind, I pasted your comment here at the bottom of the page to keep things in order. Sourced info in the article states that "After the hatches were sealed, the air in the cabin was replaced with pure oxygen at 16.7 psi (115 kPa), 2 psi (14 kPa) higher than atmospheric pressure", and that "The heat of the fire fed by pure oxygen caused the pressure to rise to 29 psi (200 kPa)". The plug door was sealed by high pressure, so extreme high pressure (as present in the fire) would render it utterly incapable of opening. Also having a hose attached would have been impossible, since the idea was - you know - going to space, where there aren't any hoses. I'd suggest giving the article and its sources a thorough read-though, I believe it would answer a lot of questions you might have. NekoKatsun (nyaa) 19:59, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Someone made a change to the captions in the audio recording in the "The Fire" section so they are obviously inaccurate and include references to memes. 8.52.175.76 (talk) 20:27, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

Good catch, thank you! I've reverted the vandalism on the Commons file captions. NekoKatsun (nyaa) 20:41, 21 May 2025 (UTC)