During a 1998 interview for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Series, launch pad leader for all of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo flights, Guenter Wendt, had this to say:"By the way, … when we did that "From the Earth to the Moon" thing with Tom Hanks, the one individual who knows more about that fire, and details, is actually a fellow by the name of Rick Boos. I don't know if you ever heard his name. He is a freelance writer. Anyhow, he knows more than anybody, either NASA or contractors or anybody, about that whole thing. As a matter of fact, I have a tape he sent me, done last February, as to

what the Apollo 1 capsule looks like right now. He was going to see

if it could be re-erected for a museum … cleaned up and so on. He became one of our technical advisors, too. By the way, …—I mean,

off the record—he found out that some of the top people testifying

for Congress did not tell the truth. They contradicted themselves

in the reports. … he is not one of the favorite people for the

hierarchy … but he has, actually, volumes of individual things down, everything documented. I told Rick, I said, "You should write a book."

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Editor's Note: When Mr. Boos and I reunited in the fall of 1994, he was working on a manuscript for a book {“Beyond The Threshold....A Reflection”}. he was writing about the Apollo 1 fire, questioning NASA's response to the emergency on launch pad 34 on that fateful night in January 1967. Rick was a very giving person and he spent

days, months and years helping others to write 32 books and produce documentaries on the Liberty Bell 7and the Apollo 1, as a result, his book did not come to fruition. I last visited Mr. Boos in 2017. At that time, I asked about the book and tried to encourage him to proceed and publish his works. Unfortunately, time seemed to have taken its toll on him and he showed little interest in resuming his endeavor. Thus, Mr. Boos' thoughts on the Apollo 1 fire, in a compact form, are lost to the ages. What follows was found in his documents;

an outline of his intended book.....