I was 28 at the time.
I lived and worked near West Palm Beach, Florida.
That's around 150 miles south of the launch site.

I was with a group of people outside of the cafeteria at a training center
near Delray Beach. We were watching the launch as we could see the smoke as the Shuttles went up.

So We saw the tragedy with our own eyes.
Not something I'll ever forget witnessing.

:nope:

The one thing that still sticks in my mind is the picture of school teacher/astronaut Christa McCauliff's https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...002-000149.jpg mom, Grace, looking up in stunned bewilderment at the launch. It gave me chills 35 years ago and still does to this day: the more so as I have a vivacious motivated only daughter and cannot even fathom such a loss.https://www.concordmonitor.com/getat...cm-111418-ph03 Grace passed away in 2018 at age 95 https://www.concordmonitor.com/getat...cm-111418-ph01 https://www.tampabay.com/resizer//Oy...IBWI6S7HAY.jpg

While I agree with you, there are other places just as unforgiving. Our own oceans and seas can be a dangerous place for those unprepared. Even the great lakes of the U.S can be a dangerous and treacherous place, even for those " well seasoned. "

The crew of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald found this out the hard way when it sank in bad weather on November 10, 1975 on Lake Superior. The Fitzgerald encountered hurricane force winds and 27 foot seas.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald

I fully understand what you aim at, and I agree, but nothing is as lethal as spoacew, me thinks. In water, cold or stormy, you still float and can swim, if only for a minute or two. I also think of the deep sea, the pressure. I experienced the "deep desert". But space? The cold, the radiation, the mere light from the sun, vacuum, absence of anything life-supporting, micro meteorites, and whatever else. Nothing is as unforgiving, as space.

71% of Earth is water.
5% of that has been explored.
Falling in the water is like brushing the edge of Space. One can survive given the high altitude jumps done.
Going deep in the oceans offer a different death, but still deadly!

It may be easier to explore space then the depths of our oceans.

You may be right given there are no currents nor volcanoes in Space.
And I doubt there are large Space Sharks and such to deal with.

You are both more than likely right as the deepest and most remote parts of our Oceans can only be explored with specially prepared drones.

You've obviously never met my wife!! :o

"And now.. for something completely different"
:rotfl2::rotfl2:

I feel your pain. :yep:

Our space adventure can be compared with a little baby who tries to take their first step. In the beginning the little child fall but in the end they will master the skill of walking.

The same with our space adventure-In the beginning there will be failure even death-But in the end we will overcome these childhood diseases.

Markus

The oceans are far less radioactive.

Humans can survive in space in a craft with Mylar sides. 5-8 pounds of pressure difference.


In the oceans? The pressure is a wee bit larger.

Fukushima, LaHague, Windscale and some others do all to solve this inequality.