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Space Rocket History #110 – Early Apollo Command Module Design
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:33:15
Publish Date: 2019-01-04 17:25:16
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The Apollo contract specified a shirt-sleeve environment. For this reason, North American was told not to include in its design a hatch that opened by explosives, like Mercury’s. An accidentally blown hatch in space would cause an instant vacuum and certain death for an astronaut not wearing his pressure suit.
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