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Is Landing as Risky as Launch for Human Spacecraft?
The recent anniversaries of the tragic Apollo 1 (January 27, 1967), Challenger (January 28, 1986, and Columbia (February 1, 2003) accidents got me to thinking about the nature of risk in spaceflight. I did some very simple calculations about losses during … Continue reading
Posted in Apollo, History, Space, Space Shuttle
Tagged 1960s, Apollo, apollo spacecraft, cold war, columbia accident, Department of Defense, History, human space flights, Moon, NASA, parachute failure, Shenzou, Soviet Union, Soyuz, soyuz spacecraft, space shuttle, spaceflight missions, SpaceShipOne, suborbital flights, U.S. Civil Space, X-15
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