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This is a huge reason the Apollo program succeeded as well. Everyone accepted the fact that the astronauts might not be coming back.
by noonespecial 9y ago
This is a huge reason the Apollo program succeeded as well. Everyone accepted the fact that the astronauts might not be coming back.
- dTal 9y agoThat's quite different. The astronauts were small in number and accepted the risks for themselves. It's not as if hundreds of contractors died building the Saturn V itself.
- derwiki 9y agoBut all those contractors on the death star... /Clerks
- FiatLuxDave 9y agoNo, the numbers were much smaller: http://afspacemuseum.org/ccafs/fatalities/ http://afspacemuseum.org/ccafs/fatalities/
- dTal 9y agoThat page is a nice tribute, and a reminder that it's not just about astronauts. Far more people ultimately died on the ground. However I would note that many of those deaths postdate the Apollo program, and some are only tenuously linked with space travel at all: "10 June 1981 - Scott Maness, firefighter with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, died at Kennedy Space Center after becoming trapped during a firefight"