Yep, thats what I was alluding to originally. For rocket ships, in an industry where the total number of manned flights still hasn't reached a very large number, 1 in 100 is a good (excellent) failure rate. If the space tourism industry is ever going to get off the ground (so to speak), that rate will have to improve tremendously or the industry will be still-born. Imagine if one out of every 100 commercial airline flights crashed with no survivors. There would be no commercial airline industry anymore. Space flight is still in its infancy, and will remain so for generations IMO. Structural engineering & materials technology has to make a few huge evolutionary leaps first. --- diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
Hopefully yes, but, it isn't the once per 100 mission that I was trying to illustrate, it's the success of the other 99 that I thought was pretty good.
____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs