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Re:Starship made it through re-entry, did its first ever lan... by philwelch on Friday June 07, 2024 @11:38PM (#40615082)
The Shuttle was human rated (though in retrospect, perhaps wrongly) despite having basically both of those exact same flaws.
Re:Starship made it through re-entry, did its first ever lan... by cubefox on Saturday June 08, 2024 @10:15AM (#40617690)
Not just perhaps wrongly, definitely wrongly by NASA's own late security analysis, which led to the early discontinuation of the Shuttle program. The Space Shuttle is a major reason why the security standards for human rating anything is now much higher than for initially human rating the Space Shuttle.