25. What is more dangerous, flying in a plane or in a spaceship? (A K2S Question)

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Flying in space based on a per passenger mile basis as recorded by the airline industry is hundreds to thousands of times safer than flying on a plane. But flying on a plane is one hundred times safer than driving a car. Of course, flying on a plane is much more expensive than driving, and flying in space is millions of times more expensive than flying on a plane.


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Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer