I think this article is over-hyping the danger. Sure, the risk of the command module and the service module crashing is nonzero but it's so tiny. They start o

I think this article is over-hyping the danger. Sure, the risk of the command module and the service module crashing is nonzero but it's so tiny. They start off being pushed away from each other by the separation and they have different aerodynamic properties. It's not surprising that they continued on similar paths initially since the atmosphere is very thin minimizing the aerodynamic differences. To make an analogy, reentry is like tossing two empty beer cans onto a windswept lake. Sure they might have a chance to hit each other early on but the chances of that are small and if their aerodynamic properties are different (i.e one isn't totally empty) they will get further apart as time goes on. The Apollo program had a list a mile long of bigger risks to spend their time mitigating. This article is just hand wringing.