Ep.04 Fire to the Phoenix
“You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream.” The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened 21 months later – Apollo’s first successful manned mission into Earth’s orbit. With Kevin Fong.
Starring:
George Abbey
Walt Cunningham
Glynn Lunney
Gerry Griffin
John Aaron
Jerry Bostick
Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project:
Chris Kraft
Gene Kranz
Wally Schirra
George Jeffs
Courtesy of CBS News:
Gus Grissom
Ed White
Roger Chaffee
Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music
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