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Comment by dghlsakjg | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]dghlsakjg · 2026-11-15 Sun 18:45 UTC · link
Fine. If you want an acceptable design parameter for expected deaths: 0%.

We do not design civilian, optional, exploratory space missions with a threshold for acceptable fatalities. There is no number of dead astronauts that we can accept as a design goal.

Unforeseeable fatalities can happen, but death rate should not be a predetermined design parameter.