Congress faulted NASA for Apollo 1 fire [audio 29min]

Following the fire on Apollo 1, NASA tried, for various reasons, to keep the investigation in-house. But Members of Congress had other ideas. NASA had gathered, and then kept secret, highly critical information about the company that built the Apollo 1 capsule. When that information was leaked, it threw the agency open to suspicion for the first time in its history. This program looks at the nearly devastating impact of Congressional investigations into the Apollo 1 fire on NASA's way of doing business.