Priorities in government and space

the point is that it was the same program. Almost all of it was the
same as used.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "the_gunfighter_45acp"
wrote:
>
> Well the mission where the three astronauts died the capsule wasnt
> sitting on a saturn V rocket. Saturn V was still in the last bit of
> testing at the time. It was a capsule test launch on a smaller
booster
> , and the booster did not fail it was a fire in the capsule that
> killed the men. Now the smaller booster may have been in the saturn
> family, but thats splitting hires..
>
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote:
> >
> > everything from the top of the excape rocket, to the bottom of
the
> > engines is part of the saturn 5
> >
> > --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "the_gunfighter_45acp"
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Lucio de Souza Coelho"
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 8/4/06, Robert wrote:
> > > > (...)
> > > > > what about reliability. look at the percentage of saturns
that
> > had
> > > > > accidents compare to the percentage of flights the shuttle
made
> > > > > compared to the failed ones.
> > > > (...)
> > > >
> > > > I don't know about the safety record of the Saturns, by I
know
> > that
> > > > the safety record of the Soyuz launcher (which is a simple
multi-
> > stage
> > > > rocket like Saturn) is far better than that of the shuttle.
> > Actually,
> > > > it is strange that you mentioned safety as a shuttle
advantage,
> > for
> > > > that is widely seen as one of the Achilles' heels of the
shuttle.
> > > >
> > >
> > > well them Saturn5s has one of the best manned launch records..
now
> > > Apollo mission and capsule name, had cost the lives of three
> > > astronauts. But the Saturn5 booster never caused the loss of a
> > single
> > > crew. And made it to space each man flight just fine. I think
only
> > in
> > > testing it hit a few bumps but still did well...
> > > Now as far as the Apollo 13. Im not sure if the small booster
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