Meh, these days being an astronaut is a glorified airline pilot, and mission specialists are the flight attendants. This isn’t sitting in a mercury capsule hoping it won’t explode.
Number of deaths in the Space Shuttle Program - 14
Number of deaths in the Mercury Program - 0
So tell me how the Mercury Program was so much more dangerous than the Space Shuttle Program?
And when you say “glorified airline pilot” do you include Chesley Sullenberger in that list?