However, after the fire crew capsule hatches were significantly redesigned. NASA changed Apollo's hatch to an outward-opening design, and that same choice persists today in Orion. "It's the ...

Griffin was assigned to Borman’s team to examine failings in the Apollo spacecraft design. Apollo 1 was gradually taken apart to try to isolate the cause of the disaster but no single ignition ...

Several changes were made to the design of the Apollo spacecraft to improve crew safety. The flammable oxygen environment for ground tests was replaced with a nitrogen-oxygen mix. Flammable items ...

Yet even amid this hectic schedule, engineers with the agency confidently conducted final design reviews on the Apollo capsule. In August, the agency took delivery of Spacecraft 012 at Kennedy ...

tragedy struck the Apollo 1 mission when a fire inside the space capsule caused the death of the three astronauts slated to travel to the moon. The event changed spacecraft design forever.

He too hated the Block 1 design. “If you get the slightest ... the crew boarded the Apollo 1 capsule, perched high atop the Saturn IB. Grissom noticed a strange odor, like soured buttermilk ...

NASA implemented nearly 100 design changes. The vastly improved Apollo spacecraft that resulted eventually enabled us to safely land on the moon. Former NASA flight director Chris Kraft ...

For someone who had worked on so many components of the mission, from the design of the 39A launch complex, to the rocket itself, to the lunar rover, to the Apollo spacecraft, watching the Apollo ...

However, after the fire crew capsule hatches were significantly redesigned. NASA changed Apollo's hatch to an outward-opening design, and that same choice persists today in Orion. "It's the ...