Re: GRIFFIN'S DRIVE FOR SHUTTLE-DERIVED



Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:


No they're not. This is the same logic that Feynman slams when the
engineers saw 2/3rds of O-rings burned through and still claimed it "had a
safety margin" when in reality the O-ring was never supposed to even burn at
all. So there was in reality no margin left.



Of course in this case we are talking about a motor for use on an unmanned vehicle. The SRB is a whole other ball of wax, and expected to have a far higher level of reliability, even if that means overbuilding it to gain reliability at the expense of performance.

Pat
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