Shuttle crew faces 1-in-100 chance of dying
Jun 28th, 2006 | by Neil Barton | Posted in science, technology, weird news | Comments Off
The seven crew members of the space shuttle Discovery arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday to begin training for a spaceflight next month in which each will have a 1-in-100 chance of dying.
Those are the official odds that NASA has long given.
Exactly what the real odds are is a question that looms larger than normal this time.
