Saturday, September 10, 2011

Russian Space Agency Determines Cause of Soyuz Crash

the Soyuz, which has been phenomenally reliable up to the point of this accident.

Let's see.

Soyuz had two loss-of-crew accidents over 110 flights.

Shuttle had two loss-of-crew accidents over 135 flights.

Looks to me like it's been no more reliable than Shuttle, all in all.

Now, if you want to count the unmanned version of Soyuz, you get 134 flights (still one fewer than Shuttle), and at least SIX failures.

Depending on how you count failures, of course. It's hard to argue that ramming MIR doesn't count as

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/MBBC0X6UmFg/Russian-Space-Agency-Determines-Cause-of-Soyuz-Crash

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