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They also didn't have to worry about basic life support. Sure, sweet water supply and scurvy are issues on long sea journeys, but compared to a Mars mission, th

• trhway 11y ago
  >but compared to a Mars mission, they really had it easy. man, i can't agree. We have only pure engineering/technological issues to solve. In addition to those (which i don't think were easier for them at their level of tech), they also had the Kraken who could end their journey and lives at any moment and they didn't even know what is waiting for them where they were going and even where that where actually is. They were sailing almost into Black Abyss ...
• nickff 11y ago
  18 of 237 men who set sail with Magellan made it back to Europe alive.[1] Of the men who set out to land on the moon, 12 of 14 landed, and 2 had to abort their mission; all 14 made it back alive.[2] Please explain why you think that modern (1960s-2020s) space travel is riskier than journeys like Magellan's. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan#Voyage_of_circumnavigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan#Voyage_of_c... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts
  • TeMPOraL 11y ago
    It's not riskier, but it's harder to get right. We met the challenge though.
  • crpatino 11y ago
    If they had gone to Mars, the tally would have been 0/237. The reason why? Because the differences of scale between going and coming back from Mars vs the Moon is about as much as the Circumnavigation of Earth and doing an average sail voyage between two well known ports in the Mediterranean Sea. There were plenty of sailors that survived those too, but the difference of scale did matter at the end.