With the new patch design, the astronauts of Crew-13 are apparently not superstitious

It comes after 12

The crew of STS-13, also designated STS-41-C, created this patch that depicts the superstitions and fears of triskaidekaphobia.

Prior to Crew-13, NASA administrators adopted a superstition and created a simple but data-driven name that became operational after the ninth space flight mission. Thus, what would have been STS-13 became STS-41-C, where 4 was the fiscal year (1984), 1 was the launch site (Kennedy Space Center in Florida), and C was the launch plan (C was the third planned flight of the year).

“I mentioned that 41-C was originally STS-13, and my friend Jim Beggs, who was the NASA administrator, had triskaidekaphobia, and he said, ‘There won’t be (another) Apollo 13 or Shuttle 13, so come up with a new numbering system.’ So we developed this complex system to calculate the shuttles at that time,” said Bob Crippen, STS-41C commander, in an interview with NASA.

NASA later reverted to direct numbers after the space shuttle was lost An opponent and the STS-51L crew in January 1986. Similarly, there was STS-113, which operated the space shuttle. Practice in 2002, but not earlier making late changes due to illness. The last time NASA faced the same idea was on Apollo 13.

“We used to joke that we were number 113,” Chief Ken Bowersox told reporters at the time. He said that to make this possible, the mission patch used Roman numerals (CXIII).

Aboard the International Space Station, the 13th crewed mission began on April 1, 2006, 10 days before the 36th day of Apollo 13’s launch.

Russia’s space program launched six crewed missions designated as number 13. On one of those occasions, the head of the country’s space agency called for a jump.

In 2008, Roscosmos CEO Anatoly Perminov said: “Many people believe in superstitions.

Despite the concerns, Soyuz TMA-13 ​​went ahead as planned. Like Soyuz 13, Soyuz T-13, and Soyuz TM-13 before it.

Soyuz TMA-13M launched Reid Wiseman, and Soyuz MS-13 landed with Christina Koch. All US astronauts went on fly NASA’s Artemis II mission Earlier this month, a lunar mission broke the distance record set by the Apollo 13 astronauts.