Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NASA now says odds are 1 in 78
Message-ID: <1989Apr14.211921.4403@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <773@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 21:19:21 GMT

In article <773@m3.mfci.UUCP> colwell@mfci.UUCP (Robert Colwell) writes:
>Front page news in NY Times last weekend:  NASA now estimates odds of losing
>another shuttle are 1 in 78 per launch...
>... The article says these new odds are causing
>major head-holding within NASA, because they change the predicted likelihood
>of another lost shuttle in this century from "not gonna happen" to highly
>likely, maybe even two more lost.

Sigh, some people (in NASA) simply don't listen when told.  Quite apart
from warnings from individual observers like Feynman, the NRC report on
attainable shuttle launch frequencies was most explicit in saying that
further losses are inevitable and must be prepared for (specifically,
by maintaining low-rate orbiter production).
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