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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Board appointed to investigate reasons for damaged shuttle thruster (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.203809.21600@siia.mv.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 20:38:09 GMT
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Organization: Software Innovations, Inc.
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In <465@newave.UUCP> john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) writes:

<<a couple of postings and repostings about the dropped-part Board>>

>...  In this case, we
>are talking about a billion dollar airplane/spaceship where ever[y] part is
>critical to the safty of the human crew.

If every part must work perfectly every time, it's a wonder
the shuttle hasn't failed more often.  I would say that
any engineered system in which "every part is critical" is
rather badly designed.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company(sm)]