[vikingerik]

To be fair, the previous history of American space missions numbered 13 did have a 100% rate of near-catastrophic failure...

[fragmede]

technically, sts-13 was a catastrophic failure, but they also technically renamed it.

[jjk166]

STS-13 was renamed to STS-41-C which was a reasonably routine mission.

[fragmede]

you're right, my mistake. I was thinking of a different mission by that particular shuttle