Now here's a tough one: What happens Cmdr A loses the data, Salvager B scoops the data but is then destroyed before it can be claimed?
You'd now have 2 (or more) data-caches in the USS..
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Well do you get the easy button in Trading or bounty hunting if you die? Um no. you lose it all. Why should Exploration get a pass? When 95% of the time the user made a mistake.
Firstly it's hardly "easy" to have to go 40kLY back to pick up your data, and secondly, which I've already mentioned, there's a difference between losing a couple of hours work and a couple of months..