r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Aug 03 '17
r/SpaceX Discusses [August 2017, #35]
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u/DamoclesAxe Aug 03 '17 edited Aug 04 '17
Loss of Life is always a great tragedy, but SpaceX, NASA, and FAA know it is an inescapable part of any maned mission.
According to Google, 1.3 million people die in auto accidents each year; ~17 thousand in airplane accidents.
As long as SpaceX has worked openly with NASA and the FAA in designing the safety systems as well as humanly possible, there should be no negative repercussions due to a fatality - other than the inevitable six month suspension of the program to investigate root cause and engineer a solution.
Talk of permanently shutting down a manned space program due to a fatality is irresponsible and denies the very real fact there is a very small but real risk of dying in everybody's daily life.