Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!dinl!holroyd From: holroyd@dinl.uucp (kevin w. holroyd) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Risk. Was Re: Why 3 SSME's? Message-ID: <1477@dinl.mmc.UUCP> Date: 11 Oct 89 20:09:38 GMT References: <538.252A3A3B@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> Reply-To: holroyd@dinl.UUCP (kevin w. holroyd) Organization: Martin Marietta I&CS, Denver CO. Lines: 16 In article shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes: > >But there's risk in everything that we do. How do you deal with risk? >What do you think about being an astronaut, knowing the safety record? >I'd be at the Cape tomorrow, if they'd let me. Am I the only one? > Heck no! I'd have been there the day after Challenger! I'd accept even a 1 out of 25 chance of being killed to get a ride in that thing. -- ******************************************************************************* Kevin W. Holroyd * CFI Aspen Flying Club * Got tired of last .signature file Denver CO. * *******************************************************************************