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A comment on SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year. Parent comment

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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