the-fires-impact

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee perished when the command module caught fire, due to inhalation of toxic smoke that led them to asphyxiate themselves and asphyxiate from asphyxiation. At the time of the fire, there was wall-to-wall Velcro inside the capsule; this had been thoroughly tested to ensure it would not ignite upon…