Comment by NetMageSCW

4 days ago

They aren’t in the same magnitude as F9 and Dragon to ISS, so no. I question if they are as safe as the shuttle (final computed risk 1:90).

> aren’t in the same magnitude as F9 and Dragon to ISS, so no

Fair enough. For a heat-shield discussion I guess we should talk about higher-energy missions. But conceded. LEO has normalized safe space travel.