Really? I think you and I have different meanings for rocket and conventional. As I would say the STS is conventional and a rocket and Challenger did blow up. Soyuz have nearly killed cosmonauts in 1975 Oleg Makarov and Vasily Lazarev demonstrated the Soyuz escape system as the rocket blew up under them. BTW, Oleg Makarov died of a heart attack resently.
Launch escape system put very high G loads on the body and could kill plus they don't save you from every possible point of failure in a launch.
Look I'm no great fan of STS. But, I just don't see people saying we should drop everything and day dream about the past...
NASA will not be made a new as some neo-NACA. Chapman isn't telling anyone anything new. Nor does he give us a way forward that has an chance in hell...
--Chris Vancil
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