Gus Grissom's capsule blew a hatch and sank. Glenn's heat shield may have been loose. Gordon Cooper had to manually control his Mercury capsule after a guidance failure on re-entry (his landing was more accurate that the auto system could offer).
Neil Armstrong's Gemini capsule maneuvered uncontrollably when they tried docking to an Agena stage (stuck thruster) until he fixed it. Ed White's space suit swelled so much on our first space walk attempt, they didn't think he could re-enter his Gemini capsule.
Apollo 13 had a major blowout. We lost two space shuttle crews in flight.
Yet, we still go back. That is the spirit that makes America great. We didn't quit, we overcame.
****Yet, we still go back. That is the spirit that makes America great. We didn’t quit, we overcame.****
Similar to a lot of male jobs.
The World Trade Center took 60 lives to build, Hoover Dam 96,
the Panama Canal an estimated 27,500 deaths. Everyday lives are predictably lost doing everyday things, routine military is one of those things, we try to minimize the training deaths but we all know there will a lot of them every year.
Some deaths are more glamorous than others though, miners get some publicity when they die, but not a lot, construction workers get almost zero, they die and the work proceeds.