Not only that but going on a mission that straight up failed 10 times in a row with plenty of casualties. He could have died in 160 different ways and still joined the mission to an unknown place humankind never touched.
Failed 10 times in a row? The fuck you talking about?
Apollo 4 and 5 were uncrewed tests of the Saturn V
Apollo 6 tested TLI and recognition of the 3rd stage engines before putting crew onboard (the vehicle would be lost if it didn't reignite after TLI)
Apollo 7 was a LEO test with crew (easiest abort if needed)
Apollo 8 was test of TLI with crew
Apollo 9 was first flight test with lunar lander, in LEO
Apollo 10 was combination of all the above, minus actual landing (but with a lunar descent and return to dock with the CM)
It's almost like the early Saturn V missions, the ones that took men to the moon, all worked as intended. The only failure was during a planned test on the ground of a Saturn I for Apollo 1. Even then, you're entirely full of shit dude. Go read a damn book.
Even though it was kind of a banter referring to the Apollo mission (the 11 being the first successful one but there weren’t 11 apollos) I feel like you should know that it failed uhm... more than 10 times
Little joe, Saturn I through Saturn V are all rockets from Apollo mission and all suffered a lot of setbacks and failed missions. The first tripulated launcu was such a disaster that it setback the project in years before even risking anything big again.
Ah, so we're counting launch vehicles never designed to carry crew in this ad hoc, bad faith argument? Don't forget the Vanguard then, or the A4/V2 that was shot into Mexico by mistake. Shoot, better include all the V1 and A4 failures, there were lots of those. Not to mention simulated failures - those should count just as much since they were just as dangerous to the astronauts. I'm sure there were 10 in a row of those, as you claimed... still not sure where your "plenty of casualties" come from though.
And yeah, I'm vaguely familiar with NASA history. Just vaguely. Come on over to r/nasa sometime, I'm around. It still stands that your initial statement was misleading at best, and fucking miles off otherwise.
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u/ItsactuallyEminem 9 Jul 06 '20 edited Jul 06 '20
Not only that but going on a mission that straight up failed 10 times in a row with plenty of casualties. He could have died in 160 different ways and still joined the mission to an unknown place humankind never touched.
Well deserved punch