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- From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
- Subject: Re: man-rating
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.152456.25477@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- References: <1993Jan4.154842.13841@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan4.180947.20495@iti.org> <72958@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan6.025846.15440@iti.org> <1993Jan06.165148.9581@eng.umd.edu> <C0G2w2.FJI@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:24:56 GMT
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- In article <C0G2w2.FJI@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan06.165148.9581@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
- >>>There is no need to man rate. It adds cost but doesn't affect
- >>>safety. If it where your money would buy the $70 million 98% safe
- >>>Atlas or the $90 million 98% safe Atlas?
- >>
- >>YOU say there's no need to man-rate. The astronaut community and anyone who
- >>goes up on it IS going to disagree with you.
- >
- >Depends on *who* goes up on it; sensible people will look at the reliability
- >figures and conclude that man-rating decreases the chances of a successful
- >flight (because it runs up the cost without increasing reliability).
- >
- >The astronaut community is less conservative, overall, than their official
- >public image would have you think. You'd have plenty of volunteers from
- >there if the engineering looked sensible and the purposes looked worthwhile,
- >even disregarding the number of qualified volunteers from elsewhere.
-
- These are guys (mostly guys) have a professional career of flying aircraft
- on/beyond the edges. I worked at Edwards for a short while, and one AF
- construction types repeated the morbid joke that they are always building new
- roads there. Why should "astronauts" suddenly develop a need for perceived
- safety?
-
- BTW, the STS is the safest transportation system we have, based on fatalities
- per passenger mile. But who would pay $1 billion apiece for a 747? (Please
- attach a smiley to the safety record).
- >
- >However, Doug's point is nevertheless valid, because the original context
- >was official government projects... and it is official NASA dogma that
- >man-rating is mandatory for such purposes.
- And we all know that a dog ma is a bitch :-)
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