[sci.space.shuttle] Probability of Explosion

dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) (01/25/89)

I noticed a news report saying that in the environmental impact
statement for the Galileo launch (due to the Pu238 RTG), NASA states
the chance of an explosion on launch is one in 3000.

Bleh.  Feynman must be rolling in his grave.

	Paul F. Dietz
	dietz@cs.rochester.edu

eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) (01/25/89)

 dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
>I noticed a news report saying that in the environmental impact
>statement for the Galileo launch (due to the Pu238 RTG), NASA states
>the chance of an explosion on launch is one in 3000.
>

	this sounds more reasonable than the 1 in 100,000 
	figure that NASA quoted for the shuttle, originally.

>Bleh.  Feynman must be rolling in his grave.

	if anything, he is probably drumming, not rolling...
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