Space flight doesn’t involve a 100 percent chance of physical death
I think historically folks have gone to war or on other kinds of missions that had death rates of like, at least, 50%. And folks, I dunno, climb Mount Everest, or figured out how to fly planes before they could figure out how to make them safe.
Some of them were for sure fanatics or lunatics. But I guess I also think there’s just great, sane, and in many ways whole, people, who care about things greater than their own personal life and death, and are psychologically consituted to be willing to pursue those greater things.
I think historically folks have gone to war or on other kinds of missions that had death rates of like, at least, 50%. And folks, I dunno, climb Mount Everest, or figured out how to fly planes before they could figure out how to make them safe.
Some of them were for sure fanatics or lunatics. But I guess I also think there’s just great, sane, and in many ways whole, people, who care about things greater than their own personal life and death, and are psychologically consituted to be willing to pursue those greater things.
See the 31 climbers in a row who died scaling Nanga Parbat before the 32nd was successful.