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0 pointstwistedpair4y ago0 comments

> Unlike say, the Apollo program, which had a guaranteed successful outcome?

Apollo was wildly dangerous. Apollo 1 killed the whole crew. The contemporary calculated failure odds for a Saturn V launch were 1/8. Compare that to the current Dragon 2 projected LOC risk of 1/276 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-2#:~:text=NAS....

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Stratoscope4y ago

I think GP was being sarcastic.

jacquesm4y ago

Absolutely. Those guys were laying their lives on the line with every launch.

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