https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents
19 astronauts (18 US, 1 Israeli)
Even the Russians lost cosmonauts (4) To me, it’s understandable that NASA didn’t gamble with the 2 astronauts’ lives. I can’t imagine the firestorm that NASA would be engulfed in.
I have no love for the NASA administrator, Bill Nelson (He’s a former astronaut) and the political wokeness that has infiltrated the Space Agency today.
Back in the glory days of NASA, not only the astronauts, but the the people running the Space Agency had The Right Stuff.
Glad to see NASA err on the side of caution.
Human spaceflight is a huge waste of time and money when robots do it a billion times faster and cheaper
We could already be drilling the ice moons and hollowing out asteroids for mining and as spacecraft if we eliminated weak, puny, needy meatbag humans.