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Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket by dba7dba on Thursday October 11, 2018 @01:49PM (#18195565)
I did not mean to come across as saying I want escape systems to not work.

With space launch systems, any use of escape system is dangerous and best to avoid. I think it will be a long time before aborting/escaping from botched space launch and recovery will be as routine as aborted takeoffs and go arounds.

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Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket by mikeash on Thursday October 11, 2018 @01:59PM (#18195661)
Just to compare the two a bit more: NASA’s requirements for the Commercial Crew program (where Boeing and SpaceX are building capsules to visit ISS) is for a loss of crew probability of 1 in 270. Note that this isn’t an abort probability, it’s the probability that everyone dies despite the abort system’s best efforts.

The probability for commercial airliners is something around 1 in 100 million.

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