Ep 34 Apollo 1

Engineering News – Saildrone Inc Unmanned Surface Vehicle sails into Hurricane Sam (2:10).
This week's engineering failure is Apollo 1 (10:30). A fire broke out during a pre-launch test (13:50) on what was supposed to be the first crewed spaceflight to the Moon. There were a number of contributing factors (22:25) that led to the fire and poor rescue effort.
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