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That'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 Satu
by dTal 9y ago
That'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"