On 13/07/2019 20:56, William Claybaugh wrote:
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 <mailto: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
