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I imagine NASA became a lot more risk averse after actually losing astronauts in the Challenger and Columbia disasters.
by VygmraMGVl 10y ago
I imagine NASA became a lot more risk averse after actually losing astronauts in the Challenger and Columbia disasters.
- kchoudhu 10y agoIf I recall, quite a few astronauts were killed on the way to the moon.
- pilom 10y ago3 died on the ground during a test exercise. No American astronaut died _in space_ until the Challenger explosion.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> No American astronaut died _in space_ until the Challenger explosion. No American astronaut died in space then, either.
- kchoudhu 10y agoYou must be fun at parties.
- krallja 10y agoNo American astronaut has ever died in space. The astronauts of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia all died in the Earth's atmosphere.