[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Andreas86

Well, I believed it until I started to really think about it.

Considering the enormous amount of failures in space missions before and after apollo (on both US and Soviet side), the statistic probability of NASA landing successfully on the moon 6 times without a single loss of life is just too much to swallow.

Not including the 28 or so unmanned Saturn I, Ib, V, and Little Joe test platforms. There were 10 manned attempts by the United States to go to the moon 9 of those were successful though not flawless. I admit it may not meet your demand more deaths must be involved to be believable. But the U.S. space program wasn’t just a walk in the park either

Apollo I mission: resulted in the death of 3 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee during a ‘routine’ plugs out test of shipboard systems prior to their scheduled launch.

Apollo XII mission:

Suffered two lightning strikes during launch. The first strike, at 36 seconds after liftoff, knocked the three fuel cells offline and the craft switched to battery power automatically. The second strike, at 52 seconds after liftoff, knocked the onboard guidance platform offline. Four temperature sensors on the outside of the Lunar Module were burnt out and four measuring devices in the reaction control system failed temporarily. Fuel cell power was restored about four minutes later. The astronauts spent additional time in Earth orbit to make sure the spacecraft was functional before firing their S-IVB third stage engine and departing for the Moon.

Apollo XIII mission:

During launch, the Saturn V second stage experienced a potentially serious malfunction when the center of its five engines shut down two minutes early. The remaining engines on the second and third stages were burned a total of 34 seconds longer to compensate, and parking orbit and translunar injection were successfully achieved. It was later determined that the shutdown was caused by pogo oscillation of the engine. Mission aborted when a violent rupture of a liquid oxygen tank deprived the Service Module of its ability to produce electrical power, crippling their spacecraft en route to the Moon. They survived the loss of use of their command ship by relying on the Lunar Module as a "life boat" to provide life support and power for the trip home.

Apollo XV mission:

During descent, the three main parachutes opened successfully. However, when the remaining reaction control system fuel was jettisoned, one parachute was damaged by the discarded fuel causing it to collapse. Spacecraft and crew still splashed down safely, at a slightly higher than normal velocity, on the two remaining main parachutes. If a second parachute had failed, the spacecraft would probably have been crushed on impact with the ocean, according to a NASA official.