Thomas Ronald Baron (died 1967) was a quality control and safety inspector for North American Aviation (NAA), the company that built the Apollo command module. After the Apollo 1 fire Baron wrote a 500 page report on NASA safety protocol violation. A week after submitting his report, he was killed instantly, along with his wife and stepdaughter when a train crashed into their car.
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Thomas Ronald Baron actually wrote two reports. The first, a 55 page report was presented to NASA officials in late 1966, alleging improper actions, and irregularities he had witnessed while working at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). NAA managers met with Baron to address his report, they found that some of Baron's criticism had merit, but the rest of his report was inapplicable or unfounded for a variety of reasons. After leaking his report to the media, he was fired. Baron then started to assemble a more thorough report. After the Apollo 1 fire, he delivered this report, containing at least 500 pages, to the Congressional committees investigating the incident.
A week after giving his deposition before the Congressional committee, Baron and his family were killed when a train struck their car. Baron's death was later ruled a suicide.[1]
Conspiracy theorists claim that the Apollo 1 fire was not an accident but a deliberate action to prevent Gus Grissom from going public against the space program. According to the same theory Baron's death and the disappearance of his report were also deliberately orchestrated by NASA to prevent him from telling the truth about the Apollo 1 accident.
Thomas Ronald Baron (died April 1967)[1] was a quality control and safety inspector for North American Aviation (NAA), the company that built the Apollo command module.[2]
After the Apollo 1 fire Baron wrote a 500 page report on NASA safety protocol violation, which he gave to Rep. Olin E. Teague's investigation at Cape Kennedy, Florida on 21 April 1967). When Baron mentioned the report up during his testimony, Teague told him "Your report went to the chairman of the full committee, not to me", that "something of that length ... we can take it as an exhibit."[3]
No more than eight days after his testimony, Baron was killed instantly, along with his wife and stepdaughter when a train crashed into their car near their home in Florida.[1][4] Baron's death was later ruled a suicide.[citation needed]
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Thomas Ronald Baron actually wrote two reports. The first, a 55 page report was presented to NASA officials in late 1966,[citation needed] alleging improper actions, and irregularities he had witnessed while working at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). NAA managers met with Baron to address his report, they found that some of Baron's criticism had merit, but the rest of his report was inapplicable or unfounded for a variety of reasons. After leaking his report to the media, he was fired. Baron then started to assemble a more thorough report. After the Apollo 1 fire, he delivered this report, containing at least 500 pages, to the Congressional committees investigating the incident.[citation needed]
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