> Neither of these are major risks compared to never being what you want to be.

I want you to repeat those words as you melt away re-entering the atmosphere.

That’s not my purpose so dying that way doesn’t seem that appealing.

Replace it with whatever you consider “worth dying for”.

	▲	renewiltord 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In that case it seems all right. Certainly if I died in Apollo 1 and I cared about spaceflight and making it to the Moon before the Russians I wouldn’t see it as unworthy. The Shuttle deaths no problem.