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From: jlg@lanl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Manned vs. Unmanned
Message-ID: <752@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 14:58:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 14:58:29 1986
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References: <740@k.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles)
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <740@k.cs.cmu.edu> dep@k.cs.cmu.edu (David Pugh) writes:
>    As for waiting until space travel is safer...space travel will never
>be perfectly safe (but, neither will driving to work). Obviously we should
>try to make it as safe as possible. But when is it safe enough? A reasonable
>answer would be: that it is safe enough when there are people willing to do
>it. Even following the Challenger disaster, there is no shortage of people
>willing to work in space. I say: let's give them the chance.

It is safe enough when people want to go AND government or private
industry want to risk the capital to build the equipment.  I agree
with you though, it seems safe enough to me right now.  The problem
is to convince the money people.

J. Giles
Los Alamos