Originally Posted by
Excargodog
30 astronauts were selected for Apollo. Afterr killing the Apollo 1 crew without their ever leaving the launch pad the program had several mission failures (Apollo 13 for instance) but no further fatalities. Three dead out of 30Apollo astronauts was a 10% mortality. Not as bad odds as playing Russian roulette even once, but even so...
I do not recall any other mission failures other than Apollo 13. Can you name any specific ones?
I did not read about them in the textbooks. I remember watching them.