"Explorers" don't usually set out for actual certain death. If the story is true, then he went up in a space vessel that he knew would not survive because he k

"Explorers" don't usually set out for actual certain death. If the story is true, then he went up in a space vessel that he knew would not survive because he knew it was poorly built. And he told them it was poorly built. And nobody fixed it. That's not exploration, that's murder on one hand and self-sacrifice on the other.