[bl]

I may have made a mistake: risky and methodical are orthogonal. Space flight is inherently dangerous and the thousands of smart NASA workers were surely aware of the natural dangers, but their jobs were to minimize them. Thus, the apparent orderliness.

It's still incredible to me that Apollo 13 was the worst outcome and that the Apollo program, overall, ran "on schedule".

[lutorm]

Arguably, the Apollo 1 fire, with 3 fatalities, was the worst outcome.

[bl]

My goodness, was that a terrible omission on my part.