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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.