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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:26:23 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> NASA?
>>
>>> Aren't they those guys who tried to launch a rocket with a faulty
>>> O-ring?
>>
>> Take two programs of comparable size made in Microsoft and in NASA,
>> and compare the total amount of bugs found during testing. The former
>> will have in the order of thousands, while the latter will have
>> something like 10.
>>
>> And the latter while never exceeding budgets nor deadlines.
>
> A NASA rocket exploding is something like an M$ product having a severe
> security vulnerability.
NO, it isn't. People haven't died because of MS security vulnerabilities.
> So far, NASA has had, what, 2 major incidents like this? In its entire
> history?
Three that caused fatalities. The first was a fire in a Mercury 7
capsule during a test - pure oxygen atmosphere + spark = fire. All three
crew members were killed. The most recent two were the Challenger and
the Columbia - the first exploded about 23 seconds into the launch, the
second burned up on re-entry.
Now, if you count the rockets that were unmanned that blew up, there were
a fairly significant number of very spectacular failures. Find a copy of
"When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions" to see some archive footage.
Jim
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