Talk:Orion 13
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[edit] 13?
Wow, so is NASA really doing this by sheer coincidence or trying to "redo" Apollo 13?
- You can be into high technology or into superstition, but I think being into both is odd. Hektor 10:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
- I just think it's werid that the first mission is "Orion 13" and I remember reading that NASA did not want to use "13" for any future missions. I heard this is why they switched to the cryptic shuttle mission names after STS-9 to avoid and "STS-13".
[edit] Orion 13
Although NASA had to confront an Apollo 13, remember, Apollo 1 was actually numbered "AS-204." That is why the Thompson Committee's report is known in NASA circles as the "AS-204 Report." As for the Shuttle, remember that prior to Challenger, NASA and the U.S. Air Force were rebuilding the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) launch pad into a Shuttle launch facility to launch spy satellites into polar orbit, as Shuttle at the time would have been the only launch vehicle used by the U.S. The x1-x and x2-x designation was adopted as a code used by NASA and the DoD for flight manifestation purposes. It was dropped after Challenger when President Reagan allowed the DoD to start building Atlas, Titan, and Delta rockets and in the process, closed down the military launch pad.
As for Orion 13, I feel that NASA has "grown" up (in the terms of numbering their flights), and because it is not supporting Orion flights to both the International Space Station and to the Moon at the same time, along with taking the "step-by-step" approach used in Apollo, I think that the Orion 13 designation is just a coincidence. And remember, Orion 13 is the first "attempted" landing since 1972 — no mission is guaranteed, and in the Apollo program, there were three near-abort situations that occured (Apollo 11, Apollo 14, and Apollo 16).
Rwboa22 14:11, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
