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Do you really think the pilots are nothing more than dead weight whose only purpose is to be a passenger? The astronauts were some of the best of the best becau
by aardvarkr 5y ago
Do you really think the pilots are nothing more than dead weight whose only purpose is to be a passenger? The astronauts were some of the best of the best because it was an experimental flight program. Do you really think the best pilots would sign up and give their lives just to be a test subject with no control like the chimpanzee the Russians put into space?
- vmception 5y agoThe point is that they don’t have to, the level of discipline is unnecessary, viable commercial space travel means it is supposed to become even more unnecessary So the gatekeeping can go away
- rrss 5y agoBasically yes, that’s what they signed up for in project mercury. The initial plan had nothing for the human to pilot. Mercury only got manual controls and a window because the astronauts fought for them.