[anymouse]

I think you need to read for comprehension. In case missed the obvious the crew of Apollo 1 died unnecessarily in a fire during a ground test.

And most everyone on the planet who knows that Apollo 13 had quality control problems that caused them to not make it to the Moon (they were very fortunate to make it back to Earth alive.)

Also most of the engineers that made the Apollo program a success are now retired or dead.

If you want to fawn over NASA as a god-like government agency, I can't stop you, but I have worked in the manned spaceflight program for about 15 years and know that there are both heroes and zeroes employed there. If you can't distinguish the difference between the two, shame on you.

[CWOJackson]

"In case missed the obvious the crew of Apollo 1 died unnecessarily in a fire during a ground test."

Were you aware that Apollo had over 2,000,000 components? Anyone of which could have caused a cathastropic failure? You really should go back and read the remarks of the other astronauts following that disaster. Considering that they were breaking new ground the whole way, being pushed by the White House to accomplish a moon landing within a fixed time frame, and were making it up (technology) as they went along...I'd say their record was pretty impressive through Apollo.

In retrospect, over forty years later Burt Rutan was only able to mimic the results of Alan Shepard's first flight.

[Constantine XIII]

I'm not "fawing over NASA", I'm mad that you're crapping in the greatest engineering achievement in the history of mankind. O_o