Apollo 1 Crew Announcement - Complete, two camera edit - March 1966

The Apollo 1 crew announcement press conference on March 1966 with Astronauts Rusty Schweickart, Jim McDivitt, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom (Dr Robert Gilruth and Dr Joe Shea are also present).
Extra coverage from a second camera was edited into the video (mostly toward the beginning). There are also sequences of the astronauts arriving and leaving the conference room.
Original footage and audio from the National Archives.
Research, editing, color correction and cleanup by RetroSpace HD.
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[@byronandlouhilley3339]

"The hatch will be firmly closed" I flinched when Joe said that.

[@matban9082]

And all of them laughed....who knew what would happen?

[@travisn2875]

My feelings exactly. 😪

[@josephcontreras8930]

Hatch ?? Hatch ?? Don't say hatch around me...gus.

[@ku4uv]

It wasn't that the latch was firmly closed. It was that the latch mechanism wasn't designed to be quickly opened in the event of an emergency on the pad where the crew would need to quickly egress.

[@cacadores3955]

And we are meant to believe the FBI were ready to raid his home and remove all his data BEFORE Grissom's wife knew about his death.

[@marcmywords6970]

Being able to hear Gus send the room into laughter with. " If it was this crew it would be Me and somebody else" priceless!

[@LPMAN02]

RIP the crew of Apollo 1 Virgil “Gus” Grissom (April 3, 1926 - January 27, 1967), aged 40 Ed White (November 14, 1930 - January 27, 1967), aged 36 Roger B. Chaffee (February 15, 1935 - January 27, 1967), aged 31 You will always be remembered as legends.

[@StEthelburga]

Gus Grissom driving off with Ed White at the end there is just beautiful!

[@kellyhiggins4234]

These were the days of real men & real heroes God Speed 🙏🏻🖤🙏🏻

[@brianarbenz1329]

I waited before I called this up, because I feared it would be so painful and a bit eerie knowing what happened to these three men. After seeing it, it was actually a positive experience. Remember how they lived, not died.

[@marcmywords6970]

This is an eerily incredible find! Those who know will understand. This is the stuff that makes uTube great! Thanks for the post!

[@matban9082]

6:23 " The hatch will be firmly closed" *Laughter* Only if they knew how'd that end.

[@thomasparisi5333]

Hard to watch, but thanks for posting this video .......

[@Musikur]

What a chilling video knowing that in hind sight, this mission never leaves the ground. I wonder which of the emergent human space projects we will look back at with the same knowledge...

[@dadaevan]

Grissom had the deepest and most authoritative speaking voice. 3 legends who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

[@wisammoeali]

looking at them happy and laughing breaks my heart, I hope they are in heaven .

[@dks13827]

Wonderful !! Keep these coming.

[@jimhowaniec]

what a heartbreaking video.

[@dmmchugh3714]

There was such optimism here, sad as we know the rest of the story. Per ardua ad astra and RIP: 1/27/1967

[@snappo20]

Who goes in the LM ? “ if it was this crew, it would be me and somebody else..” Gus was a dude!

[@MrDoneboy]

Gus was the Cat's Ass. Hell of a man!

[@dirtyharry1844]

The announcer sounds like he's going to have a heart attack at any moment.

[@riobravo4454]

Yeah and he’s mispronouncing words….

[@dks13827]

Bob Gilruth

[@subasurf]

Geez, Jason Clarke's casting as Ed White in First Man was absolutely bang on. What a dreadful fate that awaited these brilliant men.

[@jamesfrangione8448]

A tremendously important historical record. The idea that there was consideration to a possible rendezvous with Gemini 12 was something new that I took away from this. And...knowing what we know now...there was certainly quite a bit more than a collegial ribbing going on here between Gus Grissom and Joe Shea. A lot more! As always, another job well done!

[@DirkShotojima]

First time I've ever heard that even being mentioned was watching thus tonight for the first time. These really are time capsules of another time and era. It feels like I'm in the late 1960's watching this. But with all the knowledge and hindsight of our current day. KZbin is amazing for making this possible to listen to and watch on the internet via my Ipad as I'm cooking dinner in my kitchen in Sydney, Australia, June 2023!

[@Ernest-From-England]

I'd love to see this get remastered into 4K

[@ultrametric9317]

Joel Shea, whose career died in the fire - "We don't open the hatch until Block II.." - yeah :( Shea wanted to be in the CM during the test. There was no place to plug in a headset so he demurred on that plan.

[@rawyld]

Yep that is true is what we see in the film "From the Earth to the Moon" and from the novel of the book that it was based upon.

[@rawyld]

"The hatch will be firmly closed" I got a chill down my Spine knowing what was going to happen to this crew. But with the fire it may have saved Apollo 13 from dying in Space and the safety regulations have (ok not all time with Challenger and Columbia) to improve.

[@larry7124]

Great find and inspiring stuff, it a damm shame what's to come, I like Gus he nothing like the portrayal in the movie Right Stuff

[@MrDoneboy]

Will there be a tragedy, due to a rushed program, on a faulty wired capsule, in a purely oxygen environment? Who Knew!

[@kellyhiggins4234]

The very last photo these astronauts took was of them praying with a model of Apollo 1 captured saying, to Joesph Shea as a joke hey joe it's not that we don't trust you but we decided before we leave to go over your head this once ! After the photo had been takened they went into Apollo1 and never came out alive . God Speed 🙏🏻🖤🙏🏻

[@spaceoddity3958]

That's incorrect. The photo of them praying with a model of Apollo 1 was taken months before their deaths on August 19, 1966. There has been many more photographs taken of the trio after that event.

[@airplanes42]

It's sad that Joe Shea was the only person that lost his job (and NASA career to say nothing of a nervous breakdown) when he was the main person pushing NAA to produce. I've always felt like NAA was the main culprit.

[@josephg3231]

What a terrific find for spaceflight historians....a wish come true!

[@timothymccarthy8044]

Ed White put on a good face. He must have been very disappointed to not get his own command. Every other New Nine member got to command his first or second mission. He was in line to command Gemini 10, but got moved to senior pilot role on Apollo 1. Since he tragically died in the fire, and neither of his 2 children wrote a book, we will likely never know how he felt.

[@ohheyitskevinc]

Poor Roger Chafee had his name pronounced differently twice in the space of a minute. 3:00 - Ed White to Roger Chafee “Chayfee” :) Probably the first video where I hear both “Gemini” and “Chafee” pronounced differently multiple times. Great to see another video of the Apollo 1 crews.

[@JimAlderson-cn6ek]

It was well known that with the rotation scedule gus possibly would b in line for first landing and defently one of the landing crew

[@SSArcher11]

This is the real Gus Grissom, not at all similar to Fred Ward.

[@franktrovato2311]

Ward's depiction in The Right Stuff was not Grissom at all. His character seemed like a dummy.

[@kamokharun3195]

21:54 gus was out of his mind😂

[@ultrametric9317]

So where is Dave Scott, CMP for McDivitt and Schweickart? This is March 1966. He was busy with Gemini 8.

[@SpeedbirdConcordeOne]

“When do you expect to have the simulator ready?” 🍋😢

[@Gort58]

Dave Scott not present - this was less than a week after Gemini 8.

[@fretshot]

#Rip

[@josephcontreras8930]

After seeing the right stuff numerous times its hard to not see gus as fred ward and gus sounded more taller than his size. And after watching from earth to the moon im used tp seeing kevin pollock as joe shay and those other actors as the other personnel.

[@narajuna]

Oho some bad things with Mercury and Gemini, but no lemon yet? These guys look normal, no oddballs introvert Professionals. What an aweful futur in store for these fine men.

[@RetroSpaceHD]

I try to shown them doing positive things like on this press conference. I think it's the best way to keep their memory alive.

[@user-zc8ng1ry8n]

😢❤ A very sad time of space history.

[@SpeedbirdConcordeOne]

Indeed, however, they knew the risks and they pushed on for the good of the endeavour. NASA needs this boldness in 2024. Test pilots doing test pilot stuff 👍🏻

[@timlamb6196]

The tragedy was un called for

[@martyzielinski1442]

Aren’t all tragedies uncalled for? Maybe that’s why they’re called tragedies....

[@timlamb6196]

@@martyzielinski1442 Some can't be helped but some happen due to obvious fuck ups.

[@archaicamusement3871]

Sorry my ignorance. Were they the first crue , the first 3 who died in the test?

[@RetroSpaceHD]

Yes

[@user-zc8ng1ry8n]

😢❤

[@danielalejandroochoaalvare590]

No has descubierto una grabación en el momento del incendio?

[@RetroSpaceHD]

I don't put negative content on the channel. It's too sad and depressing....

[@simonparker57]

The words suffer fools gladly and Grissom didn't sit happily together then! I wonder why they bothered to give McDivitt and Schweikart a microphone.... or even an ashtray! Dave Scott was clearly the clever one on that crew!

[@MarvelousLXVII]

6:20 sure did not age well. I literally said, "Ewwwww."

[@Johnny7051MC]

I love finding and watching rare footage like this from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo era. Can’t get enough! However in this film and press conference, they should’ve chosen a better announcer. This guy is pretty terrible. His public speaking skills are horrible, mispronouncing names and talking as if he’s having a cardiac episode. As a NASA enthusiast, this is the stuff I wanna see! Press conferences, pre and post flight Astronaut interviews, preflight breakfast and suit-up footage, splashdown recovery footage of all the Astronauts, etc……and any and all footage regarding the “New Nine”, my favorite class!

[@jacobgrouse6981]

Nothing is obviously melodramatic.

[@scivirus3563]

why do some of them sound like they are drunk ?

[@melanieenglert931]

Real men are extinct.

[@greggatti4145]

omg he just said measure your nipples! this whole thing is a joke. total hoax, they don't even know what they are going to examine up there cause they are not really going anywhere. its all so funny

[@bingojones4820]

🟥Joe keep THE PICTURE in the hallway of his house for years following the event🟥