[sci.space.shuttle] Risk. Was Re: Why 3 SSME's?

holroyd@dinl.uucp (kevin w. holroyd) (10/12/89)

In article <SHAFER.89Oct11081832@drynix.dfrf.nasa.gov> shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
>
>But there's risk in everything that we do.  How do you deal with risk?
>What do you think about being an astronaut, knowing the safety record?
>I'd be at the Cape tomorrow, if they'd let me.  Am I the only one?
>

Heck no! I'd have been there the day after Challenger! I'd accept even a
1 out of 25 chance of being killed to get a ride in that thing.

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