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2006-02-18 - 9:42 a.m. A rough road � if you didn�t place the last entry�s quote in history, it was the last thing said before the Fire. On January 27, 1967 � four and a half years before I was born � Apollo-204 burned up on the launch pad during a plugs out test, claiming the lives of Grissom, White and Chaffee. The test was going poorly because the comm.-link was so bad. In exasperation, they made the offhand comment How are we going to get to the moon if we can�t talk between three buildings? The next thing that came over the line to mission control was � fire in the cockpit� It�s been a hellacious two weeks at work greatly exacerbated by miscommunication; let me just leave it at that. The entire time those words have been echoing in my head as a poignant counterpoint. There was talking of renumbering the Apollo missions, calling 204 only by its internal designation and saving the callsign Apollo 1. But, at the widows� request, the name Apollo 1 remained. Today, the burned out hull of Launch Complex 34 stands but with the addition of two plaques that say, in part: Ad Astra Per Aspera A rough road leads to the stars. I should put that up on my office door. � � Scribble to Theo previous - next �