Iceberg, Right Ahead
In 1967, the crew of Apollo 1 practiced before a space
mission. They were still on the ground, but they sat in
the capsule on the top of a Saturn V rocket. “Got a fire
in the cockpit,” a crew member reported at 23:31:04. The
crew wore space suits, which made it impossible to get
out of the small capsule before the fire had engulfed it. No
one survived. The memorial plaque on the site where the
accident happened says:
IN MEMORY
OF
THOSE WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
SO OTHERS COULD REACH FOR THE STARS
AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
(A ROUGH ROAD LEAD TO THE STARS)
GOD SPEED TO THE CREW
OF
APOLLO 1
One of the worst space related accidents took place
in China. After theChallengeraccident in 1986, NASA