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Airliners have been proven to be much safer than rockets. By way of example, spaceflight has a 3% fatality rate for astronauts [0]. If (pre-COVID) Heathrow airp
by KineticLensman 6y ago
Airliners have been proven to be much safer than rockets. By way of example, spaceflight has a 3% fatality rate for astronauts [0]. If (pre-COVID) Heathrow airport (80,000,000 passengers in 2019) had a similar fatality rate, 7000 people would die every day, at that airport alone. Airliners are massively, massively safe.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
- dotancohen 6y agoThis is the actual goal of Starship: airliner-type safety. Of course I doubt that they will reach that goal, but by striving for it then perhaps the next generation of rocket might. Contrast with NASA manned vehicle requirements, which call for a 1:270 chance of loss of crew or loss of vehicle.