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".