NASA tried to keep Apollo 1 fire investigation in-house [audio 29min]

Americans have no trouble recalling where they were when the Challenger exploded. But outside the aerospace community, you'd be hard-pressed to find people who remember the fire on-board Apollo 1, which killed three astronauts. Nevertheless, the loss, the tragedy and the impact of that fire were as bad, if not worse, than Challenger: The Apollo 1 fire called into question the most fundamental aspects of NASA's management structure. In this program, NASA, upon experiencing its worst catastrophe ever, attempts to respond to the Apollo 1 fire just like every other accident they'd ever had. Those efforts are thrown into turmoil when frightening information about the company that built the Apollo 1 capsule is leaked to a Member of Congress.