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10. Commercial aviation has a far higher success to failure ratio, else few people would risk flying.

Thu Mar 11, 2021, 12:38 PM

Mar 2021

NASA had two failures out of 135 Space Shuttle missions. One was on takeoff and one was on re-entry. I wouldn't call that comparable odds.

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