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Depends what kind of payload you have on your rocket. People or a billion-plus dollars of equipment? Or is it just a test rocket to see if it can land itself?
by ErikVandeWater 6y ago
Depends what kind of payload you have on your rocket. People or a billion-plus dollars of equipment? Or is it just a test rocket to see if it can land itself?
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> People or a billion-plus dollars of equipment? Requiring no risk of failure for people is a large part of why we don’t launch astronauts much. Space is risky. Setting the expectation that astronauts can never be lost, as opposed to that they are on an exciting frontier that has its dangers, is out of line with astronauts’ own risk preferences. This has been a failure of expectations setting by NASA.
- scrollaway 6y agoI'm sure it's not just for the sake of the astronauts though. Losing an astronaut is losing a massive investment and years of training.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> Losing an astronaut is losing a massive investment and years of training Practically grounding astronauts for three decades is not much better.
- ErikVandeWater 6y agoI'm just saying it would be blasé to say that "risk is always an option" in regards to astronaut lives or billions of dollars of equipment.