Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics.

Originally Posted by olbod

The bloke closest to the capsule looks like the late Gus Grissom.
RIP.

For those of you to young to remember.
Gus and two other astronauts were incinerated in a capsule fire back in the sixty's.
This was back in the days when they were using pure oxygen in the space craft. The oxygen was highly combustible.
You can imagine the sounds coming in over the radio as the fire took hold.

Poor Buggers.

Originally Posted by olbod

The oxygen was highly combustible.

That is technically not correct.

I 'm sure you know that, so I will leave it to you to correct the slip.

Originally Posted by vnx205

That is technically not correct.

I 'm sure you know that, so I will leave it to you to correct the slip.

Yes I know but perhaps there are some that dont.
I also did not name the other two fellows that died in that capsule.

Reason being that it might spark an inquiring mind to seek out the story and what caused it to happened.
They would learn something that would stick with them.

Learning something new everday is a wonderous thing, especially for the younger. It adds wonder to the who, what and why.

As an aside, years ago I saw photo's of the inside of that capsule before the bodies were removed and I heard the cries on the tape recorded at the time.
Horrible.
I sometimes wondered if there were similar accidents on submarines and things using oxygen in the earlier days.
Perhaps the knowledge was already known and NASA ignored it ?

At least those Blokes did not die in vain as NASA and the world learnt a valuable lesson.

Cheers.

was it velcro.

IIRC, it was a litany of design problems and choices, of which velcro was but one. Suspect workmanship may have contributed too.
Just like many aircraft crashes, a flockof ducks all in a row, any one of which could have broken the line....

maybe just bad driving???
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRFEixpzZdE]A Masterpiece of Car Parking Skills - YouTube[/ame]

I call bad driving. The outside lane to the right is actually moving and not parking.

All ass and no class,, but it did look good