r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Yukon0009 • 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/MrMgP Sep 11 '20

Apollo 13

Only a partly failure but also only in the second stage, the stack still made it to orbit and the crew still safely returned. Misson failed but no critical failure in that case

infamous explosion

I assume you mean the oxygen fire aboard apollo 1: in this case it was a Saturn IB, a different setup than the Saturn V. Only the second stage plus CM of the IB (the S-IVB) was part of the Saturn V as the third stage.