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Monday, February 03, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:22 AM:
I noted a few posts down that the people who actually get in shuttles have to be looked too for some guidance on safety issues. The astronauts were well aware of the risks. This profile of Kalpana Chawla appeared in the Merc today (Sunday):A long route from India to Sunnyvale to space travel
There were a couple paragraphs we have to keep in mind as the safety debate goes forward:
[Her friend,] Sarin always saw Chawla as a strong-willed person. Still, he said, he was struck by the way she dealt with the possibility of a mishap.And:
``I asked her, `Are you scared?' '' he recalled of their last conversation. ``She said, `Well, you don't think like that.' That sort of stuck in my mind.''
Yet, Sarin said, his conversations with Chawla often returned to the cerebral. She once told him she wanted to be aboard the first manned flight to Mars, even if she was told ahead of time that the technology did not exist to bring her back. ... (my italics)This was a person who knew the risks and had dealt with them in her own mind. I suspect that there is something of that in all these people. We need to keep that in mind before deciding it's just too difficult to explore the last frontier.
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