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28 May 2014, 2:56 pm

I once heard that the mission of Apollo 13 was contrary to appearances, the biggest success of NASA.
And you, what do you think, is this correct, and if so, why?



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28 May 2014, 4:56 pm

Define 'success'

Here's one theory I heard.

Apollo 11 was a media spectacular and a large chunk of the world was watching. Apollo 12 started off OK but once the American public discovered that it would be more of the same they switched off in their thousands. So, NASA decided to do something on Apollo 13 to make life more interesting.

Yeah, I know that we all like a good conspiracy but prove me wrong. All it would have taken was one contractor and a set of wirecutters inside that O2 tank and the rest is history.


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28 May 2014, 4:57 pm

Considering that they made it back alive in spite of their very serious problems, that was a very successful mission.



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28 May 2014, 4:59 pm

As an engineer, lessons are learned when things go horribly wrong, not when they go right. In that sense - I think we learned more about the realities of operating in space with Apollo 13 than any other space mission.


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28 May 2014, 5:02 pm

Eccles_the_Mighty wrote:
Define 'success'

Here's one theory I heard.

Apollo 11 was a media spectacular and a large chunk of the world was watching. Apollo 12 started off OK but once the American public discovered that it would be more of the same they switched off in their thousands. So, NASA decided to do something on Apollo 13 to make life more interesting.

Yeah, I know that we all like a good conspiracy but prove me wrong. All it would have taken was one contractor and a set of wirecutters inside that O2 tank and the rest is history.


That hardly qualifies as a "theory". Maybe "wacko hallucination", but not a theory. Anyone who would come up with that has shown himself to be unquestionably a total nitwit and anything he says from then on should be looked at as being nothing more than nonsense. He has no credibility at all.



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28 May 2014, 5:33 pm

Eccles_the_Mighty wrote:
Yeah, I know that we all like a good conspiracy but prove me wrong.


And then NASA went back to operating missions with virtually no tv coverage for hundreds of missions because?


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