To: Steven W.
it's just amazing the safety record is as good as it is.
2% is a good 'total loss' rate? You really think that? I hope you don't work for an airline. There have been more than a couple serious problems in the past it is just that only 2 of blown up shuttles. No I am not saying we should be as safe as an airline. I am saying 2% rate of total vehicle destruction is kinda bad.
101 posted on
07/27/2005 3:58:05 PM PDT by
TalonDJ
To: TalonDJ
Storey Misgrave (crewed Shuttle 6 times) lives here now. See him about once a month. He says NASA expected 1% loss rate. Calls shuttle a "bullerfly on a bullet."
108 posted on
07/27/2005 4:00:24 PM PDT by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
To: TalonDJ
I am all for Space Exploration but this idea of returning people to the moon and to Mars is foolhardy.
Let this 'work' be done by unmanned craft.
To: TalonDJ
No I am not saying we should be as safe as an airline. I am saying 2% rate of total vehicle destruction is kinda bad. The loss rate of flying vehicles while they were still experimental in the early 1900s was a lot higher than 2%. The shuttle is still an experimental vehicle. It is not a scheduled airliner and it does not carry paying passengers.
131 posted on
07/27/2005 4:05:56 PM PDT by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: TalonDJ
It's worse then that. The shuttle averages one fatality per 12 flights. Thats not much better then Russian roulette rates....
295 posted on
07/27/2005 5:04:23 PM PDT by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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