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rustyhancocktoday at 9:48 AM1 replyview on HN

If you need expect perfection then we will never have a space mission.

Let the astronauts give informed consent. If they mission is to dangerous for NASA then we can only hope, ISRO, CNSA or ROSCOSMOS will go.


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pavlovtoday at 10:57 AM

The point is that a $100B mission that’s still dangerous and only replicates 1960s achievements is completely pointless.

If they had set out to replicate the Moon landing at much lower cost and a controlled risk, that could have been different. Now they ended up with a very expensive, unsafe, and uninteresting mission - the worst possible combination.

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