> Christa McAuliffe Wasn't drilling in the actual dangers of climbing onto the Space Shuttle, and that she was taking on the same kind of risk as a test pilot

> Christa McAuliffe Wasn't drilling in the actual dangers of climbing onto the Space Shuttle, and that she was taking on the same kind of risk as a test pilot would part of her training? If so, I don't see an issue. Going to space only looks safe in the movies and press releases, everyone actually working on it knows that it is an incredibly dangerous thing to do. If it wasn't, NASA really dropped the ball on the training part. (It also, obviously, really dropped the ball on the O-rings part, but the institutional and bureaucratic failures surrounding that are really well documented.)