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Apollo 1 crew burnt inside cockpit as it opened only inwards
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Saturday, 27 January, 2018
On January 27, 1967, astronauts training for the first crewed Apollo flight were burned alive inside a purely oxygen-filled launch module since its door could be opened only inwards while high cabin pressure made it impossible to do so. The accident forced complete design remodelling for future missions, having an oxygen-nitrogen mixture and hatch which opened outwards within 90 seconds.
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