A major blizzard hit the Chicago area.
While Chicagoans were digging out from the snow, the news came that the three astronauts of what was then known as Apollo 204, aka Apollo 1, had burned to death in a fire inside the Command Module. Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were doomed as soon as the first spark flew.
NASA would go on to forget many of the lessons learned in the Apollo 1 fire, only to relearn them in separate accidents nearly 20 years apart.
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I remember a tidbit I learned about the conditions inside the capsule. Under that much pressure, with pure oxygen, aluminum itself could burn like a pine log.
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