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**Jorge R. Frank**

h (Rand Simberg) wrote in
:

On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:36:59 GMT, in a place far, far away, George
Evans made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

I think there is room for both opinions, still. The first thing NASA
will probably outsource is putting cargo up. OTOH, when is the last
time a private carrier put people up or brought anything down? And
even with taking payload up, I think if I were orbiting, I would want
NASA to control the upper stage.

You mean the agency that's killed fourteen people, out of a few
hundred? Why?

NASA's overall fatality rate is still less than 2%, equal to the Russians.
Nobody else has enough flights to even compare, in a statistically
significant way.

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JRF

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