Re: Space Shuttle criticizing will start once it has been retired

On Jan 1, 9:50 am, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
<mooregr_deletet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Now now, let's look at the facts....

Number of fatal shuttle flights... hmm.. 2
Number of fatal capsule flights... hmm.. 2

Huh? Every one of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts made it
back to the ground alive.

If your point is that the Space Shuttle was an example of NASA falling
to the abysmal level of technological backwardness of the country that
brought us the Chernobyl disaster, I might agree with you.

Otherwise, if you're implying that Russian space launches *count*,
that fatalities in the Russian space program have meaningfulness and
relevance to assessing the _inherent_ risks of space capsule travel,
even when done by Americans *when they're doing it right, with the old
Apollo spirit*, as should be obvious if you've read this far, I
disagree.

John Savard
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