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...Mask of Apollo, Renault...
...other hand, an oxygen-nitrogen system has serious drawbacks for space flights. The additional storage tanks, valves, tubing and instruments necessary to blend and monitor a two-gas atmosphere would add an estimated 500 lbs. to a spacecraft the size of the Apollo...
...NASA decided in the late 1950s that a space-mission failure was more likely to occur because of the added complexity and weight of a two-gas system than because of the fire hazard of a pure-oxygen system. Designers spared no efforts to fireproof the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft. All electrical wiring was coated with noncombustible materials. Devices capable of sending out sparks were placed in sealed boxes. Space suits, seats, instruments and cabin walls were all designed to avoid the generation of static electricity...
There is a second Apollo capsule waiting to be shipped to Cape Kennedy from North American Aviation's plant in Downey, Calif. There is also a back-up crew-led by Navy Captain Walter Schirra-to man the shot. But there is certain to be a long delay, for scientists must be absolutely certain that the cause of the fire is not a congenital weakness in the ship. Beyond that, it will take months to get the new capsule thoroughly tested and in position atop her Saturn 1-B. The earliest possible date that Apollo 204 could be rescheduled...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Virgil I. ("Gus") Grissom, 40, Lieut. Colonel Edward H. White, 36, and Lieut. Commander Roger B. Chaffee, 31; in an explosion while testing their Apollo spacecraft; at Cape Kennedy, Fla. (see THE NATION...