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Date of issue: 26.02.2015
Song language: English
Fire in the Cockpit |
Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed |
tonight in a flash fire during tests of the Apollo Saturn 204 vehicle at Cape |
Kennedy |
The fire occurred while the astronauts were in the spacecraft during the |
countdown of a simulated flight test |
The accident occurred at 5:31 Houston time |
Or at T-10 minutes prior to the planned, simulated liftoff |
The spacecraft was atop the Saturn launch vehicle some 218 feet above the |
launchpad |
The hatches on the spacecraft had been closed |
Emergency crews were hampered by dense smoke in removing the hatches |
And an unknown number of launch crew workers were treated for smoke inhalation |
At the Cape Kennedy Dispensary |
The crew had entered the spacecraft at 2 o’clock this afternoon |
Minor difficulties had been encountered during the countdown |
The difficulty was the Environmental Control System |
And the Communication System |
All recorded data has been impounded pending an investigation into the accident |
that claimed the lives of astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee |