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that ride to the moon seems to have been quite a rough one - at each mission it needed some hero who had to save the mission...


Ultimately, that's what made them stop: somebody (or most likely, three somebodies) was going to get killed.


Three somebodies did get killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1


I’ve always heard it was because the budget dried up after we beat the evil commies to the moon. Could you point to a source that talks about the safety angle? I’d love to read about it.




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