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Re:NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space St... by mh- on Friday November 20, 2015 @05:20PM (#10604254)
According to [1], the shuttle program ended with a failure rate of 1 in ~67.5.

1: http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a6611/us-space-shuttle...

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Re:NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space St... by varjag on Friday November 20, 2015 @05:29PM (#10604313)
In the context of manned missions, it's unsurvivable failures that are unacceptable.
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Re:NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space St... by wtallis on Friday November 20, 2015 @07:58PM (#10604947)
The original comment was clearly using a stricter standard than that.
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