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I don't get the 35 workers who died beforehand in attempts?
It’s one out of 35. The Space Shuttle disasters killed 14 crew members. Wikipedia says 610 people have reached orbit (or were intended to). Let’s use that as the denominator (so we aren’t counting Jeff Bezos). One in 35 is 2.8%. So, just the shuttle disasters account for 2.2%. Apollo 1’s crew of 3 also died.
But I think they probably just got the 2.8% number from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents
Don't forget Soyuz 11, the only people to have died above the Karman line.
ohh, I completely misread everything. I thought that 35 peoples died because they failed the training