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Apollo 1 Fire - The Oxygen Trap: How a Single-Gas Decision Became a Death Sentence

Apollo 1 Fire - The Oxygen Trap: How a Single-Gas Decision Became a Death Sentence

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 Ava Grey examines the Apollo 1 fire of 1967, dissecting NASA's decision to use pure oxygen in spacecraft testing. The episode reveals how institutional pressure and normalized risk turned an engineering choice into a death trap, killing astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee in 17 seconds.

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