# NASA APOLLO PROJECT FIRE SAFETY & FLAME RESISTANT MATERIALS EDUCATIONAL FILM 55554

This color educational film produced by A-V Corporation for NASA addresses fire in the 1969 Apollo missions. It opens with shots of bubbling magma (:17), an Apollo rocket launch (:49), and firemen battling a huge blaze ( 1:00 ). Fire must have three basic components: a combustible fuel or material, an agent to react chemically with the fuel to produce combustion, and an ignition source, using a candle as an example ( 1:28 - 2:05 ). Within a manned space flight, there are other flammable factors, such as the enriched oxygen. Shown is what may be the May 18, 1969 crew to Apollo 10 inside the space capsule during the mission, as it looks like John Young, Thomas Stafford, and Eugene Cernan ( 2:16 - 2:27 ). Next shown is a man performing tasks on the moon, which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin accomplished in Apollo 11, July 20, 1969 and Charles Conrad and Alan Bean repeated in Apollo 12, November 14, 1969 ( 2:30 - 2:43 ). To create flame resistant materials able to safely withstand space, a standardized set of practical flammability tests were established ( 2:44 - 3:31 ) as were tests for durability ( 3:34 - 3:58 ). The result was beta cloth, a type of fireproof silica fiber cloth used in space suits after the deadly 1967 Apollo 1 launch pad fire. Shown are Apollo astronauts moving within the space capsule ( 4:00 - 4:19 ). Another fiber created for spacecraft webbing and cords is PVI, due to its almost complete non-flammability in pure oxygen ( 4:23 - 4:34 ). Teflon is also used…

- Kind: Educational
- Genres: Education, Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/55554NASAFireUnderControl)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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