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Originally Posted by djellison
Perhaps the problem is not one of NASA at all. Perhaps what you're actually talking about is the PUBLIC's loathing of acknowledging the risk. After all, we want heroes, not statistics.
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And the public is quite fickle when it comes to which deaths they care about and which they don't. If they took the same attitude towards astronaut deaths as they do towards deaths from malnutrition, NASA could lose a full shuttle crew every minute of every day without registering much of a blip on the public consciousness.