What Happened To The Bodies Of The Apollo 1 Crew?

The Apollo 1 disaster — NASA's first fatal accident — resulted in the deaths of three astronauts, devastating the organization and the nation as a whole. What happened to their bodies after they were recovered?

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Voiceover by: Tim Bensch

[JE-]

You can't breathe if you are engulfed in fire and everything takes a back seat to not being able to breathe even burning pain. They were poorly sealed and the hoses weren't fire proof. When the fire sucked all the oxygen, it probably took theirs too, their suits failed. By the time the fire stopped their suits were ruptured and melted. When they started screaming, shivers down my spine!"WE'RE BURNING UP, AAAAHHHH!!!" That scream is not pain, it is sheer horror . R.I.P the crew on board

[TheLeadSled]

My father kept the Life magazine of this tragedy behind a glass picture frame, he gave it to me before he passed away.

[lisasharf]

Sadly, Ed White’s widow never got over the tragedy, and committed suicide.

[lja]

Such horrific deaths in the space program continued for decades. May they all RIP 😢🙏

[Infinite-void]

Rip:
Gus Grissom, April 3, 1926-January 27, 1967 (aged 40)
Roger Chaffee, February 15, 1935-January 27, 1967 (aged 31)
Ed White, November 14, 1930-January 27, 1967 (aged 36)

[Akira]

This happened seven years before i was born, and didn’t learn about Apollo 1 until the Challenger disaster when the news briefly mentioned it. Until then, I had no idea that astronauts had died before.

[d.c.]

@0:20 --That is **AMAZING** clarity for a 1967 photo, even if superimposed over a blurry background. 👀

[BradH]

What happened to their bodies?

Let me save you some time:

1. They were asphyxiated, not burned to death (their burns were survivable).

2. Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

3. After astronaut Frank Borman (who was handling the arrangements for Ed White) intervened and stopped an attempt by NASA officials to bully Ed White’s widow into ignoring his expressed desire to be buried at West Point and have him buried at Arlington with Grissom and Chaffee (so as to not inconvenience Lyndon Johnson, who wanted to attend all three funerals), White was buried at West Point - with First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in attendance.

[Mayelito]

Virgil “Gus” Grissom was the top guy of the Moonshot project… he was meant to be the first man on the moon..

[laurariggs]

I taught for 35.5 years at Ed White Middle School.

[nanabutner]

I remember when this happened. It truly was a very sad day!

[nightshadows]

the horrible, horrible death could not be faced by the weak so it is saved for the brave, rest in peace

[stringcodger]

Even as a young 12 year old in the late 1960s my friends and I made pure oxygen using electrolysis using batteries and a neighbors model train transformer. We would burn various things in jars containing the oxygen and some just simply exploded...even broke the jar sometimes. None of us, even at that age would have knowing gone into a pure oxygen environment!!! You did what? And what happened?

[rocklover]

Didn't Gus hang a lemon on the capsule ?

[toddlamberson]

God bless those who put they're lives on the line to advance human kind, they are true heroes.

[jumboJetPilot]

Grissom was slated to be the first man to walk on the moon.

[wallywally]

Mankind would never have gotten out of the caves if it were not for trying, accidents are part of the fuel that drives man’s curiosity👍

[clvyboipvrti]

I thought “ad astra per aspera” meant “to the stars through difficulties”?

[vorakitlertackakorn]

These three guys: It should have been us. BTW, who's to blame on that incident?

[tygrkhat]

The difference between Apollo I and Apollo XIII was the service module failed XIII.