Apollo was estimated at the time as having a one in five probability of
loss of crew.
A decade ago the then Constellation architecture for earth-Moon human
transport came in at about one in ten.
The initial flight of the Space Shuttle was retrospectively estimated at
one in four; the last flight at one in 63.
Bill
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 1:51 PM Peter Fairbrother <peter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 13/07/2019 20:42, William Claybaugh wrote:
Ed:
A fair point until one spends some time aboard a boomer and realizes
that a significant minority of those tattooed enlisted sailors hold
master’s in nuclear engineering....
Still, the safety culture is extraordinary in my experience and much
could be learned from it even given human spaceflight being far more
inherently dangerous.
More inherently dangerous than a boomer?
Discuss...
Peter Fairbrother
