Re:NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine
by avian on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:39AM
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> Thus, it is not unreasonable to guess there may be at least one surprise in the next 250,000 seconds, a probability of 1/500 per engine per mission.
It's interesting to read this in the context of the STS-93 incident [1] where a broken SSME injector came close to causing a mission abort. Was this Feynman's "one more surprise"? He was writing this report 70 missions before it happened in 1999.
It's interesting to read this in the context of the STS-93 incident [1] where a broken SSME injector came close to causing a mission abort. Was this Feynman's "one more surprise"? He was writing this report 70 missions before it happened in 1999.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-93