Apollo 1: The Tragedy that Put Us on the Moon

Apollo 1 is a candid portrayal of the astronauts, the disaster that killed them, and its aftermath.

In it, listeners will learnhow the Apollo 1 spacecraft was doomed from the start, with miles of uninsulated wiring and tons of flammable materials in a pure oxygen atmosphere, along with a hatch that wouldn’t open;how, due to political pressure, the government contract to build the Apollo 1 craft went to a bidder with an inferior plan; andhow public opinion polls were beginning to turn against the space program before the tragedy and got much worse after.