Re: NASA Picks In-Line (Maybe)
- From: simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg)
- Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:47:19 GMT
On 26 Aug 2005 04:44:35 -0700, in a place far, far away, "Will McLean"
<mclean1382@xxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:
>The other factor is reliability. The propulsion components of the stick
>have flown a lot, and were designed to carry crew, so I think it's very
>plausible to argue that the stick will be more reliable than an EELV.
There's no particular reason to believe that, unless you subscribe to
the myth that "man-rated" vehicles are more reliable. There was a lot
of pressure on the EELV developers from both their customer (the Air
Force) and the insurance industry to design it to be reliable, and
reliability was in fact one of the program goals. It's not at all
clear what they could have done to it to make it more so.
.
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