All the safety regulations and REEEEing over people dying in space maybe makes the risk too much now. Back then they could take risks.
That sounds like Occam's Razor to me. Is there legislation or something regarding this, not allowing people to voluntarily fly into space passed a certain point? It sounds odd to me.
Astronauts absolutely know they could fucking die on routine missions. No different from being a pilot, soldier, cop, welder, oil rigger, etc.. If the crew is voluntarily doing it, wtf is the problem!? Ugh I hate space politics. Imagine how much worse politics will be if we make contact with a sentient species like tomorrow.
They absolutely are not allowed to take as many risks. In the early days you had lots of rockets blowing up, but they pressed on with hardly a pause. These were war veterans, many of them fighter aces, and they would not abort a mission out of fear. Now we've got affirmative action hires who are basically political cargo (first black-Malaysian tranny in space!!!) who have no other use than to fly the flag and say "ZOG is still here".
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