On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, RJ Kanary wrote:
"(Mark Hanson calls them "Apollo Era") "
And that technology made 11 half million plus mile round trips to the
moon, and NEVER lost a life in transit. The Saturn V launch vehicle NEVER
had an in service failure.
Depends on what you mean by an in service failure - Apollo 1 resulted in three casualties, but that was due to a fire during a training exercise, not the actual mission.
Mike