feonixrift

We're increasingly driving up those costs of manned spaceflight out of that risk-aversion mostly via redundancy and detailed harebrained rescue plans, though, which I'm sure you're aware of. I feel very conflicted about that, and a lot of the conflict comes from how the US space program as a whole seems to be more worried about the funding-impacting PR disaster of possibly having deaths on their hands than the crazy intelligent brave people actually putting their lives on the line could be deterred by a calculated probability of dying on the job. My brain replays Challenger video whether I want it to or not, I read Feynman arguing about truths and known risks and I'm left wondering what's worth it. I guess we all are.