[Anticommie]

NASA has a wonderful safety record over 40 years of manned space flight.

One shuttle destroyed in 62 flights 'wonderful safety record' ??? Ha Ha Haaaa, if commercial aviation had ten time better safety record there still would be no more jets to take to the skies, lets see, one airlainer down every 620 flights, boening couldn't build them fast enough.
and I don't buy a crap that 2 fatalities in 20+ years is a "good safety record" with only about 5, 6 launches a year. It is still 1 fatality in 62, no matter if it is in one day, one month, year or decade it is STILL ONE in Sixty TWO.

[DugwayDuke]

"Ha Ha Haaaa, if commercial aviation had ten time better safety record there still would be no more jets to take to the skies, lets see, one airlainer down every 620 flights, boening couldn't build them fast enough."

You can't compare safety records for rockets and airliners. Getting into orbit is a bit more complicated than flying to Dallas in a 767.