Houston, we have a problem...

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Originally Posted by razark

The Liberty Bell 7 was lost in the Atlantic, not the Pacific. They didn't recover the hatch, which could have finally put to rest the question of why the hatch blew early.

They did work out it out. They came to the concusion that it was the external hatch release cord had come loose. The redesign for the apollo missions was one of the reasons that the Apollo 1 crew was killed (they couldn't open the hatch fast enough)