Re: Soyuz TMA-12 faulty

On Fri, 30 May 2008 02:48:58 -0500, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:



Jeff Findley wrote:

On a reusable vehicle, quality control problems like this show up during
initial test flights. I believe that Boeing generally has at least one test
flight of every airliner that rolls off its production lines. They don't
just hand the thing over to the customer without testing it first.


If something major goes wrong on a reusable spacecraft's first test
flight, it will immediately convert itself into a expendable. :-D

The same is true of a reusable aircraft. Do you have a point?
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