Re: Zeroes
> It doesn't seem to me that governments working on national prestige projects were very eager to take all precautions
Well, if you're on the cutting edge there is a chance you might get cut... How many of the early aviation pioneers met an untimely end in the wreck of their contraption?
I'm not condoning carelessness or anything like that, but all those people knew the risks they were taking, and willingly accepted them.