Oh and then, let's not forget us the players in Kerbal space program. way way below the expected life time of the 10-20 billion dollarr space truck that turned out to be a white elephant.(Oh and did they have an escape system on teh shuttle/ Tell taht to the Challenger crew. the tiotal number of shots into space totalled only 135 or 136. In fact All 5 shuttles were supposed to last 100 flights each and instead. (Let's see if were were to adjust for inflation, the end cost of the moonshot backin 1969 would be now about 300 billion instead of the 24 billion it did cost/ The Shuttles? Well with the loss of CHallenger and Columbia the Goveernment lost not only 14 lives but also 4 billion dollars worth of equipment, and the flights into space were curtailed. The Space Program, Billions if not at least a trillion dollars. and you'll be surprisd why we ar in such financial straits we are today. Now let's take a look at how much each agency in the world has done. Remember the March Long 3 test? The one that ended up taking out a nearby village/ Howmany died in that failure/ 400 -500? More maybe? (The Chinese aren't going to reveal howmany.After all their agency is tight lipped as it too is government controlled and being censored because of this. I mean for the russians their track record has been less than stellar as well.Īnd let's not forget the Chinese. They've lost astronauts too, 3 aboard Soyuz 11, another one testing out the original Soyuz, They've had near escapes by Astronauts as their rocket's literally exploded on the launch pad and it's the sheer luck that the abort systems did work. Russia's first death occurrede in 1965 when over 5000 people died in a rocket test that kiled everyone including the head of the Russian Space program. Leave that to the russians and the Chinese.īut even their space Track records aren't spotless. Cutbacks, cutting corners, and for what? Just to go to Mars in the supposedly next 15 years? Heck I think America has no frther drive to go to space. and you saw what NASA's own project (Oriion0 has been like. (Sure SPaceX hasn't sent any real astronauts into space but NASA has and yes this is a NASA project. and then after All of that was said and done, Need I remind folks of the 1986 Challenger disaster, or the 2004 Columbia accident. Need I remind folks aobut the 1967 Flash Fire of Apollo I, or the 190 event with Apollo 13 (Which amazingly with some innovation, we were able to save 3 lives from bring the first real casualitys in Real life space. I could post up some videos here and they would bring up harsh memories, but I won't. And if you think they are overrated, then rthe reality is, you Support a governmentsal agency (NASA) and you think their safe? Well hate to burst your bubble but they aren't. The fact that a nerd-deity like Elon Musk (Who I'm neutral on, but lean towards dislike) is running the show doesn't help either.
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