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Apollo 1 - 'Gus' Grissom Press Conference

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bknight:
I'm not sure if there was any compliant by the Mercury astronauts about windows, but Gus's MR4 had the first window of the Mercury program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_4#:~:text=The%20MR%2D4%20spacecraft%2C%20Mercury,window%20instead%20of%20two%20portholes.
As far as manual control, I'm not sure when that started, but during Carpenter's flight ha used manual control so much that he used virtually all of his fuel.  As a result NASA installed a major objective/goal for Schirra's flight, ~twice as long as Glenn or Carpenter, was to conserve fuel and still perform the other objectives.  Schirra did so well that he proved fuel would last for Cooper's Day+ mission.

Peter B:

--- Quote from: TimberWolfAu on June 05, 2024, 12:47:47 PM ---Hi,
This might seem a strange request or question, but is there any evidence that Grissom even held the press conference that gets mentioned when people talk about Apollo 1? I had a dig around, but without knowing specific dates and locations, or even what press would have been involved, it feels like a veritable needle.
Does anyone have some actual details regarding the Apollo 1 press conference?

Thanks,
TW

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I found something in Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon" (page 23 in my copy):

--- Quote ---Sometime during Gemini, he had told his wife, "If there's ever a serious accident in the program, it's probably going to be me." And a few weeks ago [prior to the Apollo 1 fire], at a press conference, he had said, "If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business..." But he was talking about dying in space.
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I'm sure hoax believers will put their preferred spin on Grissom's statement to his wife. But as the go-to astronaut for the first manned flights in Gemini and Apollo, it's obvious he meant that the first manned flight in a program was the riskiest.

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