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High risk tolerance in a war-torn era which held military pilot lives cheap, expendable, noble to sacrifice. (Not commenting which mindset is wiser or foolish-
by perihelions 3y ago
High risk tolerance in a war-torn era which held military pilot lives cheap, expendable, noble to sacrifice.
(Not commenting which mindset is wiser or foolish-er; just think it worth highlighting, underscoring how starkly different our eras' mindsets are. I think it's worth pondering. Do you even know how many workmen died in the trenches of the Apollo Program industry? I don't have a clue either. That one SpaceX employee died on the job is national news in our time—in the 50's-60's, all blue-collar jobs were orders of magnitude more horrible).
- threeio 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac... is a start? Probably doesn't take into account contractor lives offsite or heart attacks offsite, etc.
- WalterBright 3y agoI've read a couple histories of the Apollo program, and they spared no effort to keep the astronauts safe. The Apollo 1 fire came close to causing the entire program to be shut down.
- rokkitmensch 3y agoThat generations safety obsession lost us space for a generation, in the same way their no-nuke fixation lit our only planet on fire. These are the sins of my parents.