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NASA Commemorates Space Shuttle Tragedies
eldavojohn writes "Space.com is covering NASA's commemoration of the Apollo 1 crew & the last shuttle crews of both the Challenger and Columbia orbiters. The Apollo 1 crew was lost forty years ago yesterday to a fire while testing their spacecraft on a launch pad. From the article: 'While the nearly two decades separating NASA's three space disasters allowed room for the agency to grow complacent, the relatively short time between the 2003 loss of Columbia and the end of the shuttle program could avoid a repeat of such behavior.'"
Sorry fucktard - your "1-sigma" analysis is ignorant of the fact that Apollo had provisions for crew escape - in fact, for the whole command module to escape. That's what the "Escape Tower" atop the command module was for. Apollo crew had a *chance* at survival... unlike the clankety obsolete-before-first-launch shuttle.