It’s been more than 40 years since the first successful space shuttle launch. However, as we saw with the recent NASA launch, we still have launch failures. Why is it so tough to achieve reliability in space shuttle launches? Does this apply to all space technology?

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It’s been more than 40 years since the first successful space shuttle launch. However, as we saw with the recent NASA launch, we still have launch failures. Why is it so tough to achieve reliability in space shuttle launches? Does this apply to all space technology?

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Global / planetary entropy means there are always variables independent to the launch parameters, which cannot all fully and explicitly be accounted for ahead of launch.

Because there is so much data available at the time of launch and we only know where to apply human focus when a problem arises.

One of the reason humans consider hindsight 20:20; you only get the complete data set when you are observant