Reply #286: Funny that you mention Apollo 13.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Which I would wholeheartedly agree is an example of human inginuity prevailing in a potentially catastrophic situation.

Several days before the launch, pilot Ken Mattingly was grounded due a medical test indicating he tested positive for German Measles. While a personal setback for Mattingly, many people think Mattingly's grounding was a key component to the mission's ultimate success, as he was able to provide the mission control with critical information from an insider's point of view that others may not have been able to provide.

The positive test for Mattingly's German Measles ended up being an error.

But could one argue that the false positive may be considered a "miracle" to a certain extent. Not a miracle of divine intervention, but rather a miracle of circumstance that helped the ultimate success of the mission.