Re: 95% vs. 99.9% reliability

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1988 20:55

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In article <646@a.lanl.gov> jkw@a.lanl.gov (Jay Wooten) writes:
>You can bet the Soviets would have hardly missed a beat in sending up
>another one (something they've proved several times in the past).

As somebody wrote in Aviation Week a few months afterward (roughly, from
memory):  "If the same thing had happened to the Soviets, they would have
swept the debris off the launch pad, hoisted the next launcher onto the
pad, and started the countdown.  Anyone who objected would have been told
where to go, or sent there."
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 95% vs. 99.9% reliability
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