frank boreman was instrumental in reviewing the whole issue. >> nasa essentially investigated itself.t kept the outside people who had not the slightest idea what was going on at bay. ite think that was one of the hallmarks really of the confidence that the public had in nasa at that time. we were able to get a team together and point out the failures and fix it. >> boreman's testimony helped the convince the public that although there would always be risks and nasa can learn from it and it should go ahead. the launch pad disaster may have allowed nasa to get to the moon faster than scheduled. >> we had a opportunity to learn from that mistake, very frag jibing, sad mistake, but to actually accelerate the program. i am not alone in having said that the fire really did make it possible to meet kennedy's goal to land on the moon by the end of the decade of the 60s. >> nasa never designated any flights apolo 2 or 3. apolo 4, 5 and 6 were unmanned missions to test the safety of the rocket. it togeok almost two years before another american crew went into orbit. apolo 7 on october 11th, 19