Re: 35 years ago, today
These tragedies seem to go with any large enterprise. It's sad.
And, it was a shock a week or so ago to realize that more folks have been killed in the US space effort than in that of the former Soviet Union and/or Russia.
I wonder how the stats would compare if one compared the number of deaths with the number of people sent to orbit and if one compared deaths with the number of man-days in orbit (or beyond).
Arf