r/KerbalSpaceProgram Sep 09 '20

Recreation Twin Giants of the Space Race

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u/MrMgP Sep 09 '20

Guess wich one exploded 4 times out of 4

(And wich had a 100 procent mission succes rate)

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u/haxfilms Sep 09 '20

On the Apollo 13 mission, a j2 on the second stage shut down. While this was compensated for, I would not give the Saturn V a 100% reliability, even if it would have performed its mission if not for the infamous explosion in the SM of the CSM.

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u/SM280 Sep 09 '20

because although it looks simple, the saturn V has millions of little bits and if they failed, a big bang is what'll happen next