He didn’t exactly say, yeah you’re gonna die but it will be fun.
He said there’s a high risk but a glorious thing to accomplish.
I don’t think he’s planning to just use them as cannon fodder, the idea is to succeed.
I guess I’m missing something.
Why would we send people to set up a colony on Mars, if it was expected to be a death sentence????
Manned exploration of Mars may well be in our future, but, don’t we expect those astronauts sent on a Mars mission to return?