Thu Feb 07, 2019 4:28 pm
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...Bruce McCandless performed the first ever untethered EVA and we got this iconic image...
lobstaboy wrote:It certainly beats flying over water in a SEP for risk!
Or does it?
ChrisRowland wrote:Difficult to get statistics from small samples
ChrisRowland wrote:...and the astronaught only just made it back before he drowned.
ChrisRowland wrote:Wouldn't it be great to do that though!
Miscellaneous wrote:I watched First Man the other night and found it incredible that they put themselves in the position they did. How do you do a risk assessment for landing on the Moon when it's never been done and more critically, in face of all the mishaps there had been?
There could only be one conclusion to such an assessment, so best not to do it.
Talk about being as safe as one can be.