Re: Soyuz TMA-12 faulty

"Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Every experienced delivery pilot has a horror story or two about
things that were wrong with a type certified airplane brand new from
the factory.

And expendable launch vehicles are subject to those sorts of horror stories.
The current problems with Soyuz DM not properly separating from the Soyuz SM
are in that category.

I rather think these are purely problems with quality control and not
with the principle of expendable launch vehicles. Even with reusable
vehicles you need very much the same kind of quality control for spare
parts and maintenance and if you fail to realize that you're going to be
screwed either way.

Jochem

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longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
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