19-12-2017, 05:13 PM
I am reading Michael Collins' fascinating biography 'Carry the Fire'. He relates that a Saturn V rocket with command and lunar modules attached amounts to over 5 million separate components. They worked on the expectation that 99.9% of these components would work perfectly. Leaving just 0.1% or 5,000 to malfunction. Of course they had no idea which 5,000 that might be...