On: SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

[inglor_cz]

Saturn V worked well, but we seem to be forgetting that Apollo 1 killed three astronauts on Earth and Apollo 13 almost killed another three in space.

[dreamcompiler → inglor_cz]

I never forget either. Both were failures of the command/service module design, not the rocket.

[inglor_cz → dreamcompiler]

True, but ultimately Saturn V + Apollo was a stack intended to fly together, much like Booster + Starship. Both have/had to be reliable as a whole, with disastrous consequences if not. We can praise Saturn's V reliability, but it is just a part of the entire project, and it makes sense to judge the entire project as well.