Re:Dragon V2 Unveil – Webcast
by nickff on Friday May 30, 2014 @03:23AM
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Why would putting cargo into the crew compartment be unsafe? on the way up, there is no danger of the cargo falling on them... quite the contrary...
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Because fundamentally, if a craft is safe to send humans to orbit you want to send humans - not cargo, which is cheaper to send with a craft which is less safe.
You are correct to say that using a human-rated system to launch cargo is usually much more expensive than necessary, as was true of the space shuttle. This does not mean that the cargo causes any safety problems.