Fear of Flying, OpEd, NY Times

“As NASA prepares for its first space shuttle launching since the Columbia disaster, the question on everyone’s lips is this one: Is the shuttle safe? My answer, as the former chairman of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, is that there is no such thing as safety. Spaceflight will always be risky. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it.”

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