Many expeditions to the “Unknown” ended gruesomely because they didn’t know and were not prepared; While going to these places today one has a very good chance to survive. I can only assume it will be the same with space explorations (once we’ll get there). The first trips will have extremely poor surviving rates but later you might as well go there with your class field trip.
I can only assume it will be the same with space explorations (once we’ll get there).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents
Orbital fatalities so far are just Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11, STS-51-L, and STS-107. We are still a bit early, but Space exploration has been surprisingly safe so far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatalities_from_aviation_accidents
There were many more fatalities in the early days of aircraft, though airplanes proliferated more quickly than spacecraft have.
Space exploration has a decent safety record because we have not entered the age of commercial space exploration…
It’s been gradually ramping up with things like the Inspiration4 and Axiom missions, but still relatively slow. Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight is further from today than the Wright Brothers’ flight is from Yuri Gagarin’s flight.
