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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by JanSolo on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:21PM (#28857185)
According to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...

The current statistical fatality rate for astronauts and cosmonauts is 3.2 percent. Lets give Blue Origin the benefit of newer tech and learning from previous mistakes and say they're twice as safe as any other spacecraft. That's still a 1.6% chance you'll die taking a flight in it.

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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by midasuni on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:03PM (#28858226)
Except blue origin isnt in the same order of magnitude as Gemini, Soyuz, Dragon, etc.

How many people have died in suborbital rockets with low apogees and barely any down range movements?

Numbers just aren’t there to reasonably draw any conclusions

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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by jeffwass on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:38PM (#28858868)
> How many people have died in suborbital rockets with low apogees and barely any down range movements?

The three astronauts of Apollo 1.

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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by midasuni on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:47AM (#28860890)
That was a ground fire of an orbital vehicle
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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by jeffwass on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:21AM (#28861436)
The rocket itself was clearly suborbital at the time.
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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by amelius on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:59PM (#28857654)
Does that rate also hold for flights using the same model or even the same vehicle as tested in previous flights? Shouldn't testing bring the rate down?
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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by Natsu on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:22PM (#28857885)
You know that the pandemic has been going on too long when my first thought was "oh, that's about as (un)safe as getting Covid" :(
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