Isn't It Dangerous?

Of the those seven crew members, four were actually from my astronaut class. So we all came in together. We trained together a you know, we had dinner at each other's houses and partied together on the week end. You get asked the same questions all the time: Isn't it dangerous? And if it's dangerous, why should we going up there? That's a good way to turn things around before we say good bye. I mean, we are explorers. We're a species of explorers. It's what we do, an we do, and it's what we've done since since people first stood on two legs and started walking around. A space exploration is, to