Why are concerns like safety and recycling important in astronomy, even though the research is often not conducted in a traditional lab?

Cbecause it is the only one describing a habitat

The soviet union beat the us to the first successful launch, with the october 4, 1957, orbiting of sputnik 1, and later beat the us to have the first human in earth orbit, yuri gagarin, on april 12, 1961. the "race" peaked with the july 20, 1969, us landing of the first humans on the moon with apollo 11

Due to the amount of pressure