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Re:The death of corporate research labs by ISL on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:11AM (#23259311)
There were 135 Shuttle missions flown. Two ended in disaster.

There is a huge difference between a 1.4% failure rate and a 40% failure rate.

NASA got a whole lot of science done with those missions.

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Re:The death of corporate research labs by abh123 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:03PM (#23261119)
But more missions would have been flown if the Shuttle was more reliable. This is a kind of survivorship bias where we don't know how many missions would have been flown with a different design.
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