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Alan Shepard

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Alan Shepard

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Alan Shepard is expressing how unsettling it is to trust your life to equipment or systems chosen mainly because they were the cheapest option in a government deal. This highlights the risk and discomfort astronauts face when safety depends more on cost-cutting than on quality or reliability.

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