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Re:SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond ... by godelski on Monday February 27, 2017 @06:23PM (#13749546)
The thing is that NASA doesn't want to put anyone on something has the chance of doing that. The emergency system is for emergencies. Ideally it should NEVER be used. Vetting for manned missions is a lot different than cargo. That's all I'm getting at here. When rockets have recently exploded NASA gets pretty worried about putting humans on it.
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Re:SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond ... by gus_massa on Monday February 27, 2017 @08:53PM (#13750476)
For comparison, the Space Shuttle has NO emergency system and approximately a 2% catastrophic failure rate ...
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Re:SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond ... by rbanffy on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:12AM (#13752891)
It had a couple abort options if one or more SMEs failed. Unfortunately, none of the catastrophic failures were predicted.

Nature has a way to do things we don't expect it to do.

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