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What do you mean by "40% vehicular failure rate"? Could you please give some insights / sources?

• ygra 9y ago
  Out of five vehicles built, two have been lost. I think you can find sources on those two incidents easily enough.
  • elihu 9y ago
    According to wikipedia, there were 135 shuttle missions. So, a 1.481% failure rate in case anyone was wondering.
    • woodandsteel 9y ago
      From a commercial, ROI standpoint, having %40 of your hardware eventually destroy itself is bad news. Especially since each time your whole enterprise stops for years until you find out what went wrong and fix it.
      • tomp 9y ago
        What?! All hardware failes eventually. If you get an average of 27 of flights from a single rocket, I'd say that's outstandingly good news!
        • igravious 9y ago
          Nobody is arguing that hardware doesn't eventually fail so I don't know why you mention that. False. It's not outstandingly good news, not if we want to become multi-planetary in short order. We need to get to better than commercial airliner standards quickly.