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Chris Vancil — (archived)

Buck wrote: I'm not sure if you are serious and this even needs to be said, but OBVIOUSLY there is a potential for fatalities BEYOND earth orbit. Apollo 13 had a potentially fatal problem BEYOND earth orbit. If they were on their way to Mars they would have all died.

Chris writes: I don't think so. What caused the problem with the CM and SM was the "eggs all in one basket" of the oxygen's location.

If you had one failure of an oxygen tank on the way to Mars you would hopefully have more and not locate everything so an explosion would cause this kind of problem. It's sort of like you saying if the ISS had an oxygen candle fire they couldn't recover from it.

As I understand it Apollo 13's cryo stir and explosion happened at the "best" possible time...if it had happened an hour later or ealier then the crew would have died either from a lack of energy or oxygen.

There are plenty of accidents that can happen on the way to the Moon on the return or in your bathtub. Good planning can help reduce them.

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