Nasa Is Doing Nothing But Development. They're

Airplanes Were Invented By Natural Selection. Now You Can Say That Intelligent Design Designs Our Airplanes Of Today, But There Was No Intelligent Design Really Designing Those Early Airplanes. There Were Probably At Least 30,000 Different Things Tried, And When They Crash And Kill The Pilot, Don't Try That Again.

By 1931, After A Few Years' Experience Of Flying Scheduled Airlines, Those Planes Were Operating At Roughly 600 Times The Safety Of The Space Shuttle. I Look At Safety Not In Terms Of Fatalities Per Passenger-mile, But When You Get In And Close The Door, What Is The Risk Of Dying On This Flight?

A Nasa Astronaut And A Russian Cosmonaut Can't Be Creative. He Has To Follow A Predetermined Detailed Checklist Written By An Engineer And If He Gets A Little Creative He'll Never Fly Again.

No One Knows How To Make Going To Orbit Orders Of Magnitude Safer And Orders Of Magnitude More Affordable.

In The Coming Era Of Manned Space Exploration By The Private Sector, Market Forces Will Spur Development And Yield New, Low-cost Space Technologies. If The History Of Private Aviation Is Any Guide, Private Development Efforts Will Be Safer, Too.