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Safe Is Not an Option (Paperback)
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Safe Is Not an Option (Paperback)
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The history of exploration and establishment of new lands, science
and technologies has always entailed risk to the health and lives
of the explorers. Yet, when it comes to exploring and developing
the high frontier of space, the harshest frontier ever, the highest
value is apparently not the accomplishment of those goals, but of
minimizing, if not eliminating, the possibility of injury or death
of the humans carrying them out. For decades since the end of
Apollo, human spaceflight has been very expensive and relatively
rare (about 500 people total, with a death rate of about 4%),
largely because of this risk aversion on the part of the federal
government and culture. From the Space Shuttle, to the
International Space Station, the new commercial crew program to
deliver astronauts to it, and the regulatory approach for
commercial spaceflight providers, our attitude toward safety has
been fundamentally irrational, expensive and even dangerous, while
generating minimal accomplishment for maximal cost. This book
entertainingly explains why this means that we must regulate
passenger safety in the new commercial spaceflight industry with a
lighter hand than many might instinctively prefer, that NASA must
more carefully evaluate rewards from a planned mission to
rationally determine how much should be spent to avoid the loss of
participants, and that Congress must stop insisting that safety is
the highest priority, for such insistence is an eloquent testament
to how unimportant they and the nation consider the opening of this
new frontier. About the Author Rand Simberg is a recovering
aerospace engineer with over a third of a century of experience in
the space industry. Early in his career, he accumulated over a
decade of experience in engineering and management at the Aerospace
Corporation in El Segundo, California and Rockwell International in
Downey, California. Since leaving Rockwell in 1993, he has been a
consultant in space technology and business development as well as
a technology entrepreneur. He also advises on regulatory and market
issues pertaining to commercial and personal spaceflight. Mr.
Simberg holds multiple engineering degrees from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Masters degree in Technical Management
from West Coast University in Los Angeles. He is an adjunct scholar
with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and has written many
pieces for Popular Mechanics, Fox News, America Online, PJMedia,
National Review, Reason magazine, The Weekly Standard, The
Washington Times, and TCSDaily, among others. He has also written
extensive essays on space policy and technology for the quarterly
journal, The New Atlantis.
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