'Who-gets-thrown-from-the-lifeboat questions '
Fascinating: CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- How do you get rid of the body of a dead astronaut on a three-year mission to Mars and back?
"There may come a time in which a significant risk of death has to be weighed against mission success," Wolpe said. "The idea that we will always choose a person's well-being over mission success, it sounds good, but it doesn't really turn out to be necessarily the way decisions always will be made."
He makes sense...
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It's good that these discussions are going on now, rather than waiting for the inevitable. Of course, the folks who go on these missions (and their families) will have to agree to the final guidelines. I wonder whether people on Earth will understand when a crew member ends up dying in space of something that could have been treated on Earth?
Posted on May 1, 2007 8:50 PM
I can see the wrongful death lawsuits now.
Posted on May 2, 2007 12:45 PM