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Originally Posted by Von Due
My 1m tall Lego Apollo/Saturn V is ready with its tiny crew to celebrate the anniversary of the maddest missions humans have ever plotted and executed.
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I don't think the moon landing was our "maddest mission" For that, I would nominate Apollo 8. It was, frankly, a foolhardy mission and even the crew did not give themselves a high chance of coming back.
It was the first manned mission to use the Saturn V. The previous unmanned test had significant problems with the second stage and the third stage was unusable.
If this rocket was used on Apollo 8, the crew would have been stranded.
There was no LEM, which proved a good safety "lifeboat" for Apollo 13.
There was no backup system.
These were, in my opinion, the bravest three astronauts in our program.
All this because we were intimidated by Zond 5.