Re: Oxygen Fires
- From: "Rusty" <reuben_barton@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 Sep 2006 07:18:09 -0700
Gareth Slee wrote:
from
http://astronautix.com/thisday/sepber10.htm#BORN
"1962 -
· Fire in a simulated Air Force space cabin Nation: USA.
Program: Apollo. Spacecraft: Apollo CSM.
· Fire broke out in a simulated space cabin at the Air
Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base, Tex., on the
13th day of a 14-day experiment to determine the effects of breathing
pure oxygen in a long-duration space flight. One of the two Air Force
officers was seriously injured. The cause of the fire was not
immediately determined. The experiment was part of a NASA program to
validate the use of a 5 psia pure oxygen atmosphere for the Gemini and
Apollo spacecraft."
Yet the continued to use a pure oxygen atmosphere until Apollo1 five
years later?
--
Gareth Slee
From a 1964 NASA report:
Space-cabin atmospheres. part ii - fire and blast hazards a literature
review
Roth, E. M.
NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI)
NASA-SP-48 , 19640101; Jan 1, 1964
Fire and blast hazards in space cabin atmospheres
Accession ID: 64N20744
Document ID: 19640010830
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19640010830_1964010830..pdf
-Rusty
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