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Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle – R. P. Feynman (1986)
- vanni 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Role_of_Richard_Feynman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Role_...
- vanni 9y ago“I think the 1 in 100 figure is very obviously accurate at this point, given 2 losses amid 135 missions.” Source: https://lobste.rs/s/213ye9/personal_observations_on_reliability#c_lwdnpg https://lobste.rs/s/213ye9/personal_observations_on_reliabil...
- Nomentatus 9y agoWhat's changed since is that our general infrastructure and our most critical institutions (think electronic voting machines) now all hang by this same easily unraveled thread. There's a book by a Dutch fellow about the disaster that is truly harrowing, it paints a picture in which NASA engineers fully understood the shuttle was going to blow, soon, and that's precisely why they were willing to cut so many corners - they knew that so many faults had already been built into the Shuttle that the chances that their additional cheat would be the final straw - rather than some other department's cheat - were very small.