NY Times Blockbuster: NASA Officials Loosen Acceptable Risk Standards for Shuttle.

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Terrell Miller wrote:


IOW, wait until another one blows up and figure out what else happened that
they should have known about to begin with.

let me ask you something, James: people stand a much worse risk of dying
in an automobile accident than they do flying the space shuttle.

Does that mean that nobody should drive a car?

Life is risky. There's no way around that. Get over it.

In a more honest world NASA would simply say that
1) the Shuttle is a stupid design with about a 1% chance of destruction
per flight, and
2) we're gonna keep flying them just as they are for worthwhile
purposes, such as repairing Hubble one last time and fulfilling our
international commitments to the ISS.