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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Probability of Explosion
Message-ID: <2488@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 89 15:55:20 GMT
References: <1989Jan25.074356.22053@cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
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 dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
>I noticed a news report saying that in the environmental impact
>statement for the Galileo launch (due to the Pu238 RTG), NASA states
>the chance of an explosion on launch is one in 3000.
>

	this sounds more reasonable than the 1 in 100,000 
	figure that NASA quoted for the shuttle, originally.

>Bleh.  Feynman must be rolling in his grave.

	if anything, he is probably drumming, not rolling...
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