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1/100 is absolutely terrible. Shuttle had 1.5% failure rate. Bonkers.

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For comparison, commercial aviation has something like 1 in 5.8m or 6x 9's of reliability.



There have been 412 manned space flights, ever, by anyone, anywhere.

A large commercial airport handles many times that number of flights every single day. Worldwide there are a hundred times more flights per day than the number of manned space flights in history.

I suspect every model of commercial plane has flown far more flights than all the human rated rockets put together.


It's not terrible for space flight. Flying a rocket to the moon and commercial aviation are obviously very different things.




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