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Except blue origin isnt in the same order of magnitude as Gemini, Soyuz, Dragon, etc.

How many people have died in suborbital rockets with low apogees and barely any down range movements?

Numbers just aren’t there to reasonably draw any conclusions

> How many people have died in suborbital rockets with low apogees and barely any down range movements?

The three astronauts of Apollo 1.

That was a ground fire of an orbital vehicle

The rocket itself was clearly suborbital at the time.

Does that rate also hold for flights using the same model or even the same vehicle as tested in previous flights? Shouldn't testing bring the rate down?

You know that the pandemic has been going on too long when my first thought was "oh, that's about as (un)safe as getting Covid" :(