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		pklausler 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through defe... What was the one failure of the Saturn V that you mention? If you're thinking of Apollo 13, that took place after the Apollo stack had ditched all of the Saturn V stages.

SJC_Hacker 9 months ago [–]

Apollo 6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_6

Had that happened on a crewed mission, they could have returned astronauts safely. Which is probably why they went ahead with Apollo 8

pklausler 9 months ago | [–]

Thanks for that link!

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