Apollo 1 Fire--The Backstory to Come

Don't worry, there are no spoilers revealed since I'm sure they won't cover this in the series, but it goes to Betty's stubborn character as depicted and where it leads. Eventually, Scott Grissom, Gus's younger son, came up with a lunatic theory that the fire was due to a deliberate murder conspiracy, and convinced his mom it was true:http://news.discovery.com/space/history-of-space/the-apollo-1-conspiracy-theory-130204.htm.

First and most important, the story is completely bogus. It was debunked by people who had been on the original fire investigation team when Scott first made the charges. Scott kept pushing it online and a few years back there was a ferocious debate on one of the sci.space.* USENET newsgroups in which actual NASA engineers who had worked in Mission Control and on the Apollo design teams utterly destroyed Scott's "evidence" point by point, despite Scott's vehement rebuttals.

The point being that poor ol' Gus, even in death, never did get clear of the unfair stain of the Liberty Bell sinking.