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To: TalonDJ
I don't know how you all are getting the 1-2% loss rate.

There have been five spaceworthy space shuttles (Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor) and two have been lost. That's an equipment loss rate of 40%.

I think this latest mission is the 26th mission of the space shuttle program. The two losses result in a ~4% mission loss rate.

254 posted on 07/27/2005 4:42:29 PM PDT by delacoert (imperat animus corpori, et paretur statim: imperat animus sibi, et resistitur. -AUGUSTINI)
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To: delacoert

The number of Shuttle missions flown is over 100, around 108 I think.


264 posted on 07/27/2005 4:46:22 PM PDT by cabojoe
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To: delacoert

Other than those 5, the only other one in existance is Enterprise, correct?

I still don't understand why they just threw her in a closet after flight tests..all the others have been refit over time, why not the prototype?


453 posted on 07/27/2005 8:34:26 PM PDT by DefiantZERO
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