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Rocketships are insane, there has to be many many fail safes because failures happen all the time. I remember a NASA engineer giving a talk on engineering safet
by cowsaysoink 14y ago
Rocketships are insane, there has to be many many fail safes because failures happen all the time. I remember a NASA engineer giving a talk on engineering safety when I was going to school where he said that the probability of catastrophic failure in NASA's launches is 1 in 100 and that is as low as they are able to make it at this point in time.
- jmharvey 14y agoCloser to 2 in 100: 2 shuttle losses in 135 flights, plus 1 catastrophic failure out of 32 missions in the pre-shuttle era.