Apollo 13

[Laurel]

To add to Raven's list, Apollo 12 was struck by lightning right after liftoff. This could have resulted in an abort if EECOM John Aaron hadn't remembered the "SCE to AUX" command at just the right moment.

[Bob B.]

Also...

The Apollo 16 suffered a steering malfunction in the SPS engine that delayed the lunar landing.  Had mission controllers not found a way to work around the problem, the landing might have been cancelled.

[ChrLz]

...Apollo 11 had at least two fun incidents, an alarm going off, specifically code 1201, that could have resulted in an abort

yes, but I think the possibility of it resulting in an abort was almost non-existent - the reason for that alarm was known - in fact I have a conspiracy theory that Buzz deliberately caused it, for a bit of drama!

And don't forget Apollo 12 being hit by lightning..  I'm sure there are others.  {oops beaten to the punch..}

[DataCable]

To say nothing of 14's fun with the self-closing abort switch...

[ka9q]

I'm not sure there was a single Apollo lunar mission that didn't have some sort of serious problem that, for a moment at least, gave people reason to think the landing might have to be cancelled. I think most of them have already been mentioned:

Apollo 11 -- computer alarms during descent
Apollo 12 -- lightning strikes during launch
Apollo 13 -- *was* aborted, of course
Apollo 14 -- T&D docking problems, abort switch solder short
Apollo 15 -- ?
Apollo 16 -- CSM SPS thrust vector control problems
Apollo 17 -- ?

Anybody think of any serious problems during Apollo 15 or 17?

[slang]

Apollo 18, 19 and 20 faced the worst disaster since Apollo 1: cancellation..

[Glom]

Apollo 18, 19 and 20 faced the worst disaster since Apollo 1: cancellation..

But at least they faced their disasters with zero casualties.

[twik]

gtvc, what exactly is your point? That something supernatural (either the malevolent effects of the number 13, or the power of prayer) affected the mission?

These things will never be provable, and discussion of them is only marginally related to Apollo.

[Glom]

gtvc, what exactly is your point? That something supernatural (either the malevolent effects of the number 13, or the power of prayer) affected the mission?

These things will never be provable, and discussion of them is only marginally related to Apollo.

We'll also never be able to test it since NASA will never again launch a mission numbered 13.

[Echnaton]

gtvc, what exactly is your point? That something supernatural (either the malevolent effects of the number 13, or the power of prayer) affected the mission?

These things will never be provable, and discussion of them is only marginally related to Apollo.

We'll also never be able to test it since NASA will never again launch a mission numbered 13.

If but for no other reason than to avoid the press coverage making awful comparisons to Apollo 13. 

[gtvc]

gtvc, what exactly is your point? That something supernatural (either the malevolent effects of the number 13, or the power of prayer) affected the mission?

These things will never be provable, and discussion of them is only marginally related to Apollo.

Well I just wanted to see different points of view about Apollo 13 if I want something supernatural I just need to read UFO books for example in JJ Benitez book my favorite UFOs He claims the Apollo 13 was carrying a nuclear device to do a secret test on the moon and the aliens damaged the Apollo 13, he also claims some aliens were in one of the transmissions on the moon but that's on another section of this forum, but I see  every Apollo Mission was very dangerous including walking on the moon.

We'll also never be able to test it since NASA will never again launch a mission numbered 13.

the accidents of the Columbia and Challenger never had the number 13 I guess but people give a lot of importance to the number and I remember in the trailer of the movie Apollo 13 they mention hour minutes and dates with 13 to make everything more interesting to the audience.

[Glom]

Challenger was the 25th Space Shuttle launch.  If you take 5 and subtract 2, like in Roman numerals, you get 3.  If you add 10, because it was Challenger's 10th launch, you get 13.  Spooky!

Columbia is even spookier because it was the 113th Space Shuttle mission.  Or if you prefer, it's number was 107, which if you add the digits together you get 8.  It was also the 27th flight of Columbia.  If you subject 2 from 7, you get 5.  Add 8 and 5 and you get 13.  Spooky!

[ka9q]

He claims the Apollo 13 was carrying a nuclear device to do a secret test on the moon

Apollo 13 was indeed carrying a nuclear device. So did Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. Apollo 11 also carried a nuclear device, though it was much smaller.

But they were not explosive nuclear devices and they were hardly secret. (Nuclear explosions in space are banned by the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963.) The "nuclear device" was the SNAP-27 radioisotope thermal generator (RTG) used to power the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package. It was fueled by plutonium 238. Although the Apollo 11 Passive Seismometer generated its electricity from solar panels, it carried a small amount of Pu-238 in a heater to keep the device warm through the long lunar night.

[DAKDAK]

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[Laurel]

I think that apollo 13 had incredibly good luck,considering that there spacecraft had an explosion a 100 thousnd miles from earth and somehow they were supposedly able to survive in space for another several hundred thousand miles and land unharmed . This to me seems like UNBELEIVABLE GOOD LUCK

Excuse me, but the "Hoax Theory" section is over here.
http://www.apollohoax.net/forum/index.php?board=3.0