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Michael Büker

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May 14, 2008, 1:16:13 PM5/14/08
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Hi!

For a presentation I'm about to hold at my university, I would like to
know the ratio of succesful and failed cargo launches in the history
of spacetravel, but have been unable to find comprehensive data.
From numbers published by The Aerospace Corporation (United States Air
Force), I find that the ratio of failures for all space launches is
very near 10%, but those numbers only go until 1999.

Please help if you have or know about better data.

Thanks in advance!
~Mik

Damon Hill

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May 14, 2008, 5:52:01 PM5/14/08
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Michael Büker <m.bu...@berlin.de> wrote in news:cf96ee57-988b-4ebf-ac26-
208c72...@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

> Hi!
>
> For a presentation I'm about to hold at my university, I would like to
> know the ratio of succesful and failed cargo launches in the history
> of spacetravel, but have been unable to find comprehensive data.
> From numbers published by The Aerospace Corporation (United States Air
> Force), I find that the ratio of failures for all space launches is
> very near 10%, but those numbers only go until 1999.

Happy data mining:

http://geocities.com/launchreport/logsum.html

(hats off to sci.space.* alumni Ed Kyle for his informative web page)

--Damon

Michael Büker

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May 15, 2008, 5:45:29 PM5/15/08
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On May 14, 11:52 pm, Damon Hill <damon1S...@comcast.netnet> wrote:
> Happy data mining:
>
> http://geocities.com/launchreport/logsum.html
>
> (hats off to sci.space.* alumni Ed Kyle for his informative web page)

Perfect, that's just what I needed!

Thanks to you and to Ed Kyle :)

~Mik

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