+26 With how much risk there is, it's incredible that none of the 12 people who've been on the moon died there. amirite?

by Hectorwaters 1 week ago

Would it be like Mt. Everest, where they leave the bodies there?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'd guess so. It may not even be possible to retrieve bodies there

by Hectorwaters 1 week ago

Interesting question. If they couldn't retrieve the body, would they need to add weight a different way? Apollo 13 had problems because the ship was too light due to the fact that they didn't have the expected samples on board. Being 250lbs under weight might be problematic.

by weissnatlora 1 week ago

I think might was issue was more to do with the calculations that were done in advance, not the weight itself.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

According to Nixon's backup speech that's exactly what they would do.

by Ygraham 1 week ago

Someone doesn't know what happened to Apollos 18-24! /s

by Ygraham 1 week ago

There were only 7 missions and it was an extremely close thing with Apollo 13 though. I read that the accepted risk of space shuttle missions was a 1 in 50 failure rate, borne out by the 2 failures out of 135 launches, so if the moon landing missions were planned on a similar basis, you wouldn't expect any deaths from 7 missions.

by SalamanderDry4523 1 week ago

If we figure that the overall expected odds of death for an individual crewmember was 1:50, then there was a 78% chance of 0 deaths. To get to a 50/50 chance of at least one death, I get the odds for any particular member being 1:18 To get it up to a 90% chance of no deaths, it'd be 1:114 for each crewmember.

by Anonymous 1 week ago