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Is that a fair comparison? The Apollo deaths happened very early in the program, while we were still figuring out how to spaceflight. In contrast, the Columbia disaster occurred when the Shuttle was a well-established vehicle.
Hypothetically, if Apollo kept flying as many missions as Shuttle, I wonder if it might have been safer.