Bad experience with appolo 13?

Question

Did the bad experience of same magnitude with appolo 13 also occurred with some other appolo mission? if not what about the common thinking of associating No. 13 with bad luck?

The problem in the first mission we can say was because it was very first attempt/lack of experience. Scientist always call these coincidences but there is something there which science can't explain. e.g. Oetzi Curse, the mummy which caused death of 7 people involved in excavation, filming etc. of the mummy.

Answer 1

Apollo 1 crewed by Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee didn't even make it off the ground. The first manned Apollo flight ended in disaster when a fire occurred in the capsule on the launch pad during a test, the capsule contained 100% pure oxygen at 14lbs psi, a worn through wire caused a spark and ignited the oxygen, the astronauts couldn't open the hatch in time. Ironically, Gus Grissoms first flight almost ended in disaster when the hatch of his one man mercury capsule blew out premeturely (exposive bolts) causing the capsule to sink to the bottome of the atlantic, Grissom nearly drowned. Other Apollo flights did have glitches, some with the lunar module, some with the service module but non with the sum of the parts that the Apollo 13 crew had to overcome.

Answer 2

The superstition about the number 13 didn't come from the Apollo 13 mission--it's been around for 2000 years. Hostorians trace it to the early Christians who noted that Judas, the betrayer of Christ, was the 13th at the last Supper.

There was Appolo 1--which was supposed to be the first Apollow mission. However, the astronauts were killed in a cockpit fire while running tests before the mission started.

None of the other Apollow missions had problems on thescale of Apollos 1 and 13, though.

Answer 3

Each and every Apollo mission met with its own failures and successes....
By far the worst bad experience NASA had was Apollo 1, which caught fire during a routine pre-launch training procedure. All three astronauts who were in the capsule burned to death.... the capsule that was so tightly sealed to protect them from the vacuum of space ended up being their grave. :-(
NASA called Apollo 13 their "successful failure," because, while they may have failed to land on the moon, they managed to get the three men on board home safely. Had this mission failed to return the men home alive, NASA may have canceled all future missions (two fatal missions would have resulted in an outraged public and bad publicity= less funding=no more missions), one of which, Apollo-Soyuz, was an important step towards ending the cold war!!!

As for the stigma surrounding the number 13, it is the result of many historical events, the first of which being Judas being the 13th person to sit at the Last Supper of Jesus, and later his betrayal. Also, Pope Clement V chose Friday the 13th as the date he betrayed the Knights Templar, who had grown too powerful for his liking, to be murdered as "enemies of God." And, in recent years, Apollo 13 has joined that list, having been the 13th mission, launched the 13th hour and the 13th minute; scheduled to land on the moon on April's 13th day....

Answer 4

None of the other Apollo missions were canceled, so it was the one with the worst experience. To associate its experience with number 13 and bad luck is an example of associating space research with superstition.

Answer 5

Nothing of that magnitude occured on any other Apollo missions although there were some close calls on nearly every one.What they did was extremely risky.The "13"
was pure coincidence,but it had such a dramatic impact that NASA decided to avoid the number in future missions.