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Old 10-24-2005, 06:52 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Pragma
"Continued catastrophic failures"...

That's two failures in over 20 years of flying? I don't know the exact dates for how long the Shuttle has been flying, but it's somewhere around there. Also, when you're dealing with any kind of space-flight technology, especially on reentry, the only type of failures you can have are fatal.
Didn't Apollo 13 prove that wrong?
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