How Do You Make a Spacecraft Safe?

When you send a spacecraft into space, engineers need to ensure that the humans onboard will get to their destination and back in a timely manner, but also in a way that keeps them safe on the entire trip. How do they do that? Take a listen to this fascinating chat with Vera Demchenko, a Systems Test and Verifications Engineer for Lockheed Martin's Orion Program. She gives us great insight into how this is done.