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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: 95% vs. 99.9% reliability
Message-ID: <1366@eos.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 88 17:30:09 GMT
References: <3763@teklds.TEK.COM> <2087@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <1704@eneevax.UUCP> <646@a.lanl.gov> <1988Aug9.205520.5911@utzoo.uucp> <579@proxftl.UUCP> <1988Aug19.182401.20602@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <1988Aug19.182401.20602@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <579@proxftl.UUCP> greg@proxftl.UUCP (Gregory N. Hullender) writes:
>>I imagine they would also have sent various officials from Morton Thiokol
>>and Nasa off to the Gualag, if not had them shot.
>
>Sounds like a fine idea to me.  A good many of them deserved it.

Yaw vol, mein herr, vhere do you vant us to line up?  Das thou plan to
pull the trigger, thein self?

>there would have been no shortage of
>volunteers to fly high-priority missions before definitive fixes were made.
>Bear in mind that you've seen a biased sample:  the safety-first astronauts
>like Sally Ride were the ones who got the publicity.

Well, we can see there's not schedule pressure in this newsgroup.
No one has brought up loss of a second craft if the first problem had not
be isolated.  I'm surprised to the contribution to greater loss of
"investment."  Also what ever happened to making making space safe
for every one [i.e., eventually doing away with astronaut requirements]
which everyone was interested for such a time?

Just a progression......

>>Fortunately, we don't live in the Soviet Union; 

Oh!  Am I on the wrong side of the Pacific?

Anyways, let's get back on track shall we?

Another gross generalization from

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