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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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