INQUIRY BEGINS
Apollo Fire Tragedy
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. The United States Senate Space Committee opened the first public inquiry into the Apollo spacecraft tragedy yesterday in the wake of a space agency report that risks of fire had been mis-
judged. The testimony from top space officials comes exactly one month after the fire that killed the astronauts, Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. “We thought it better to have the testimony in open session,” the chairman, Mr Clinton Anderson, said. In a report released on Saturday, N.A.S.A. said that “continued alertness to the possibility of fire had become dulled by previous ground experience and six years of successful manned missions.” The risks of uncontrollable fire had been misjudged, the agency said. The report called for a number of corrective measures. The N.A.S.A. chief, Mr James Webb, the Deputy Director, Mr Robert Seamans Jun., and Mr George Muller, the head of the Manned Space Office, are exepected to testify today.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31307, 1 March 1967, Page 17
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