Apollo 1 - The Tragedy That Put Us On The Moon

<p>Tonight, my special guest is author Ryan Walters who&apos;s here to discuss his book <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Tragedy-That-Put-Moon/dp/1684510945/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1636326332&amp;sr=8-1'>Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us On The Moon.</a><br/><br/><br/><br/>Visit our home on the web: <a href='https://www.mysteriousradio.com/'>https://www.mysteriousradio.com</a><br/><br/>Follow us on Instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/mysteriousradio/'>@mysteriousradio<br/></a>Follow us on TikTok <a href='https://www.tiktok.com/@mysteriousradio?lang=en'>mysteriousradioTikTok<br/></a>Follow us on Twitter<a href='https://www.twitter.com/mysteriousradio'> @mysteriousradio<br/></a>Follow us on Pinterest <a href='http://www.pinterest.com/mysteriousradio'>pinterest.com/mysteriousradio<br/></a>Like us on Facebook<a href='http://www.facebook.com/mysteriousradio'> Facebook.com/mysteriousradio<br/></a><a href='https://www.mysteriousradio.com/'><br/></a><br/></p><p><a href='https://podfollow.com/mysterious-radio'>Check Out Mysterious Radio!</a> (copy the link to share with your friends and family via text)</p><p><br/><br/><br/>On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than a month away. All three astronauts were experienced pilots and had dreams of one day walking on the moon. But little did they know, nor did anyone else, that once they entered the spacecraft that cold winter day they would never leave it alive. The Apollo program would be perilously close to failure before it ever got off the ground.<br/><br/>But rather than dooming the space program, this tragedy caused the spacecraft to be completely overhauled, creating a stellar flying machine to achieve the program’s primary goal: putting man on the moon.<br/><br/><em>Apollo 1</em> is a candid portrayal of the astronauts, the dis