Wrong. Fail.


"I was always aware of the risk, as most of us, almost all of us, have been. We always knew that space flight was risky; we always viewed it as risky. I've never viewed it as something that was routine or operational."
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/pre...amarda_04.html



" It's a fact of existence that exploration is dangerous, and we have learned that yet again. But we knew it anyway."
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/pre...binson_04.html

"We take spaceflight for granted, and it's still pretty darn dangerous,"
http://www.aol.in/news/story/2007061...011/index.html


"It is a risky activity."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...092301691.html

"He added that flying into space "with the technology we have will continue to be expensive, difficult, and dangerous.""
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/eve...iffin_wia.html


Indeed - something that several senior NASA managers have said, multiple times, in press conferences.