Re: Space Shuttle commentary

On 27 Oct 2006 13:12:26 -0700, "www.spaceboot.eu"
<andyhenospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

These are very interesting numbers, thanks for those. The average
however stands as it is, and indeed, I did have fun with the stats and
was amazed myself to see the average of 1 year, I didn't even have to
bend the numbers.

Here are some more for you...

SOYUZ -
First flight: 1967
Years of Service: 39
Number of flights to date: 95
Average flights per year: 2.4
Mission failures: 6* (6.32%)

*Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11, Soyuz 18A, Soyuz 25, Soyuz 33, Soyuz T-10A

SHUTTLE -
First flight: 1981
Years of Service: 25
Number of flights to date: 116
Average flights per year: 4.6
Mission failures: 3.5* (3%)

*STS-41B (partial), STS-51L, STS-83, STS-107

ARIANE 5 -
First flight: 1996
Years of Service: 10
Number of flights to date: 33
Average flights per year: 3.3
Mission failures: 3* (9%)

*Ariane 501, 502 (partial), 510 (partial), 517
.

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