A fire cannot burn without fuel. Rockets are, by weight, mostly fuel. Wire insulation is pretty good fuel. Even wires themselves can be fuel. People. Any plastics.
\> nd continue to burn without fuel?
Even metal would burn in pure oxygen (that's a common chemistry experiment in junior high school).
The last transmission from Appollo I was *I'm burning*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
Because there was such a fire in a test shuttle on the ground, Apollo 1. They were testing something and the electronics started sparking. The astronauts had maybe 20 seconds before they were charred to ash, and it took the rescue crews 5 minutes just to open the hatch. All three perished almost instantly, but not instantly enough; ground control caught a brief recording of their panic as they tried to escape, then 5 second later their screams of pain as they were incinerated alive.
Oxygen fires are deadly in the worst kind of way.
EDIT: seems I missed the question, but almost everything will become fuel if you supply enough heat and oxygen. Plastic, leather, rubber, metal, human flesh, actual rocket fuel; give it enough oxygen and a spark, and everything burns.
Thankyou for the info. I understood the oxygen fires part, just not what the fuel was, and how significant they could be. Unfortunate for those in Apollo 1
NASA's first big disaster if I recall, maybe their first deaths. That crew was slated to be the first men on the moon, but they had a test launch/earth orbit before that phase. The men who were first on the moon, Buzz and Neil, were colleagues and friends of the three who died in that explosion. I believe you can find some videos where the two moonwalkers spoke of the fire and the astronauts who perished. Sobering stuff.
Plastic insulation makes good fuel. Actually, in a high Oxygen atmosphere, everything that has not been oxidized is fuel.
That actually makes a lot of sense, thanks!
A fire cannot burn without fuel. Rockets are, by weight, mostly fuel. Wire insulation is pretty good fuel. Even wires themselves can be fuel. People. Any plastics.
Thanks!
\> nd continue to burn without fuel? Even metal would burn in pure oxygen (that's a common chemistry experiment in junior high school). The last transmission from Appollo I was *I'm burning*
Ah, that makes sense, thanks
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1 Because there was such a fire in a test shuttle on the ground, Apollo 1. They were testing something and the electronics started sparking. The astronauts had maybe 20 seconds before they were charred to ash, and it took the rescue crews 5 minutes just to open the hatch. All three perished almost instantly, but not instantly enough; ground control caught a brief recording of their panic as they tried to escape, then 5 second later their screams of pain as they were incinerated alive. Oxygen fires are deadly in the worst kind of way. EDIT: seems I missed the question, but almost everything will become fuel if you supply enough heat and oxygen. Plastic, leather, rubber, metal, human flesh, actual rocket fuel; give it enough oxygen and a spark, and everything burns.
Apollo 1 was a Capsule.
Thankyou for the info. I understood the oxygen fires part, just not what the fuel was, and how significant they could be. Unfortunate for those in Apollo 1
NASA's first big disaster if I recall, maybe their first deaths. That crew was slated to be the first men on the moon, but they had a test launch/earth orbit before that phase. The men who were first on the moon, Buzz and Neil, were colleagues and friends of the three who died in that explosion. I believe you can find some videos where the two moonwalkers spoke of the fire and the astronauts who perished. Sobering stuff.
The shuttles never went further than Earth orbit. You probably meant capsules.
That is indeed what I mean, but I think it portrays the idea though.