No. Consumers/the general public are less aware of the risk, and as another reply said more likely to trust a company on it's safety. They aren't marine engine

No. Consumers/the general public are less aware of the risk, and as another reply said more likely to trust a company on it's safety. They aren't marine engineers so they have to. That's why it's a regulated industry. Researches are making an entirely different risk/benefit calculation and it's useful to society that they can make different risk tradeoffs. Key example, astronauts. In that is an implication that research is more important to society than a holiday activity.