A Nasa Astronaut And A Russian Cosmonaut

By 1931, After A Few Years' Experience Of Flying Scheduled Airlines, Those Planes Were Operating At Roughly 600 Times The Safety Of The Space Shuttle. I Look At Safety Not In Terms Of Fatalities Per Passenger-mile, But When You Get In And Close The Door, What Is The Risk Of Dying On This Flight?

We Didn't Have Practical Model Rockets In The '50s. The Ones We Made Were Very Dangerous And The Kids That Played With Them Didn't Have All Their Fingers, And Sometimes Were Blind In One Eye.

There Was A Wonderful Little Short Four-year Time Period When Marvelous Things Happened. It Started In 1908, When The Wright Brothers Flew In Paris, And Everybody Said, 'ooh, Hey, I Can Do That.' There's Only A Few People That Have Flown In Early 1908. In Four Years, 39 Countries Had Hundreds Of Airplanes, Thousands Of Pilots.

Science Is Not About Consensus, And Consensus Is Not Science.

The Criticism Is, Once I Get Something Flying, I Lose Interest In It.