Comment by ben_w

5 days ago

Per mile, sure.

Per launch? I think the "everyone died" rate is about, what, 1.2% of crewed launches?

Not a good sales pitch for commercial space flights

  • While I’m confident we will probably have large scale commercial spacecraft in my lifetime, I suspect I will be long retired by then. I’m 31.

    We need a decade of accident free autonomous launches before humans will line up in mass to visit space like a Carnival Cruise.

    • Don't dismiss the yearning for space/new frontiers/adventure that a lot of us have. If you offered tickets to the moon today for the price of a cruise, you would probably have people standing in line from Cape Canaveral to Tallahassee.