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> Unlike say, the Apollo program, which had a guaranteed successful outcome? Apollo was wildly dangerous. Apollo 1 killed the whole crew. The contemporary calc
by twistedpair 5y ago
> Unlike say, the Apollo program, which had a guaranteed successful outcome?
Apollo was wildly dangerous. Apollo 1 killed the whole crew. The contemporary calculated failure odds for a Saturn V launch were 1/8. Compare that to the current Dragon 2 projected LOC risk of 1/276 [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-2#:~:text=NASA%20calculated%20the%20loss%2Dof,of%201%2Din%2D270 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-2#:~:text=NAS....
- Stratoscope 5y agoI think GP was being sarcastic.