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Old 24-March-2008, 01:19 AM
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About half of the failures were Soviet losses from the '70s. Those failures are mostly launch or Earth de-orbit failures.

The U.S. failures were mostly landing attempt failures, which are couple of magnitudes harder to do that an orbit failure. I believe the U.S. has had only one orbit failure and about a dozen successes. Blame the metric system for that one failure . . .
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