Space Shuttle - "a ~2% failure rate" Which incidentally was exactly what the engineering studies predicted while it was being designed. Which really says somet

Space Shuttle - "a ~2% failure rate" Which incidentally was exactly what the engineering studies predicted while it was being designed. Which really says something about the quality of engineering analysis which went into creating the Shuttle. For reference you can nerd out on the following awsome books: "Space Shuttle Decision, 1965-1972 (History of the Space Shuttle, Volume 1)" "Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981 (History of the Space Shuttle, Volume 2)"