Clark Lindsey addresses the ludicrous, but widespread notion that there is something different about space passenger travel that makes it so fragile that the industry will somehow be destroyed by a single accident.

I suspect that the source of this is the same one that causes us to irrationally grieve astronauts that we’ve never met, and demand that no more ever die. There seems to be something different about space in the minds of many that causes people to check their brains at the door when discussing it.

It’s just another place, people. Folks are going to die opening up frontiers, as they always have. Get over it.