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There were 135 Shuttle missions flown. Two ended in disaster. There is a huge difference between a 1.4% failure rate and a 40% failure rate. NASA got a whole
by ISL 6y ago
There were 135 Shuttle missions flown. Two ended in disaster.
There is a huge difference between a 1.4% failure rate and a 40% failure rate.
NASA got a whole lot of science done with those missions.
- abh123 6y agoBut more missions would have been flown if the Shuttle was more reliable. This is a kind of survivorship bias where we don't know how many missions would have been flown with a different design.