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The Shuttle was human rated (though in retrospect, perhaps wrongly) despite having basically both of those exact same flaws.
by philwelch 2y ago
The Shuttle was human rated (though in retrospect, perhaps wrongly) despite having basically both of those exact same flaws.
- cubefox 2y agoNot just perhaps wrongly, definitely wrongly by NASA's own late security analysis, which led to the early discontinuation of the Shuttle program. The Space Shuttle is a major reason why the security standards for human rating anything is now much higher than for initially human rating the Space Shuttle.