Comments on: Space Shuttle Russian Roulette http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3543 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: kevin http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3543&cpage=1#comment-1427 kevin Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:29:48 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3543#comment-1427 And hopefully when NASA does move toward the "next" it'll answer first what might be the most basic question nobody is asking: can frequent space flight be done at low risk at all? Is it reasonable to expect that a new multi-pax orbiter will decrease the risk by many orders of magnitude? From 1-100 to 1-10,000? Would we even accept 1-10,000? And hopefully when NASA does move toward the “next” it’ll answer first what might be the most basic question nobody is asking: can frequent space flight be done at low risk at all? Is it reasonable to expect that a new multi-pax orbiter will decrease the risk by many orders of magnitude? From 1-100 to 1-10,000? Would we even accept 1-10,000?

]]> By: Roger Pielke, Jr. http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3543&cpage=1#comment-1426 Roger Pielke, Jr. Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:58:19 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3543#comment-1426 This chamber was empty: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-shuttle28jul28,0,2262872.story?coll=la-tot-promo This chamber was empty:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-shuttle28jul28,0,2262872.story?coll=la-tot-promo

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