"LooseChanj" wrote in message
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On or about Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:31:09 -0500, Rick DeNatale
made the sensational claim that:
The same is true today, except for two things. 1) The public tends to
think of the Astronauts more like Airline Pilots and Business
Travellers,and 2) Budget and schedule pressures have more influence on
the calculations.

The same is *not* true today. People didn't die during Apollo
spaceflights.

No, they died on the ground. In some ways that was worse. A plugs out
ground test, everyone KNEW that was safe! Until it wasn't.




I've always kind of wondered what peoples' attitudes would be if someone
had
been lost early. Really early, like during Mercury or Gemini. How would
such
a loss have shaped public opinion to this day?

We'd have kept flying.

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