After doing some checking, the only people to have died in the Apollo Program were those in the command module of Apollo 1 when a fire broke out on the launchpa

After doing some checking, the only people to have died in the Apollo Program were those in the command module of Apollo 1 when a fire broke out on the launchpad. Apollo 13 could've ended in tragedy had the service module's oxygen tank exploded after LM landing or on return after the LM jettisoned. Collins' concern from the article was the ascent module's component would not work correctly to separate from the lander and reach the command module again. Videos of that successfully occurring in Apollo 15 and 17 are here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBcLg0DkLA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBcLg0DkLA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKRkvCKri8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKRkvCKri8 The problem for Collins was that this stage of the mission had not been tested in prior Apollo test launches. In hindsight, Apollo was a great success with 6 lunar landings and 1 aborted mission. Whoever knows if they were just very lucky each time, or that the craft was quite reliable. Collins may have, or still might think the former, yet he might have been fairly safe all along. We'll never know.