• KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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    24 hours ago

    Wasn’t Apollo I destroyed when a spark caused an explosion on the launchpad due to pressurising the cabin with pure oxygen?

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      19 hours ago

      No, it was because of shoddy wiring causing a fire inside the capsule in an area that couldn’t be accessed easily from the inside or extinguished from the outside. The egress sequence was also very time consuming (somewhere like 90 seconds). Apollo I also was just a training module, it never got launched.

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      21 hours ago

      Maybe, but that’s neither here nor there. We can’t draw that correlation to effects of oxygen on the body via respiration.