printAre Private Rockets Safe Enough? How SpaceX and Boeing plan to keep NASA astronauts safe
by rd95
Nasa isn't demanding 100% reliability from SpaceX and Boeing. "For every hundred missions, how many missions could you analytically show are going to be safe and return the crew safely to Earth?" asks Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight development at Nasa. "The number we've come up with is: for every 270 flights, we might have one where we’re going to have a bad day."