{"id":16349,"date":"2012-08-05T10:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16349"},"modified":"2012-08-05T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T15:30:26","slug":"reason-tv-what-is-an-astronauts-life-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/reason-tv-what-is-an-astronauts-life-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason.tv: What is an Astronaut&#8217;s Life Worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/20UvZpB3E1I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You&#8217;re saying that you&#8217;re going to give up four billion dollars to avoid a one in seven chance of killing an astronaut, you&#8217;re basically saying an astronaut&#8217;s life is worth twenty-eight billion dollars,&#8221; says astronautical engineer and author Dr. Robert Zubrin.<\/p>\n<p>Zubrin, the author of a popular and controversial article in <em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s space-centric February 2012 Special Issue, argues that the risk of losing one of the seven astronauts who repaired and rescued the Hubble Space Telescope was well worth it. &#8220;If you put this extreme value on the life of an astronaut&#8230;then you never fly, and you get a space agency which costs seventeen billion dollars a year and accomplishes nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s role, according to Zubrin, should be in the pursuit of ambitious missions such as &#8220;opening Mars to humanity,&#8221; rather than a bloated, safety-obsessed bureaucracy. &#8220;The mission has to come first.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re saying that you&#8217;re going to give up four billion dollars to avoid a one in seven chance of killing an astronaut, you&#8217;re basically saying an astronaut&#8217;s life is worth twenty-eight billion dollars,&#8221; says astronautical engineer and author Dr. Robert Zubrin. Zubrin, the author of a popular and controversial article in Reason&#8216;s space-centric February 2012 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44,15,13],"tags":[69,716],"class_list":["post-16349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-space-science","category-technology","category-usa","tag-nasa","tag-spacecraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4fH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16351,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349\/revisions\/16351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}