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Technically, the number of Apollo primary crew astronauts who've died of heart disease is the same as the number who've died in fires in pure oxygen environment
by ajarmst 10y ago
Technically, the number of Apollo primary crew astronauts who've died of heart disease is the same as the number who've died in fires in pure oxygen environments. That's the problem with small sample sets.
- sliverstorm 10y agoIt's erroneous to conclude Apollo astronauts were at high risk of dying in pure oxygen fires?
- ajarmst 10y agoNo, but before that incident, they were operating as though it was near zero. The actual risk can't be determined by a handful of incidents (or their absence).
- ajarmst 10y agoAfter-the fact probability analysis is weird, but the actual predictable risk (before Apollo 1) was certainly less than 1/12, although that's what the hindsight risk for Apollo primary crews was. Of course, it was 0 for all the crews after the first...