CONTRAST: A conceptual reliability growth approach for comparison of launch vehicle architectures

In 2004, the NASA Astronaut Office produced a memo regarding the safety of next generation launch vehicles. The memo requested that these vehicles have a probability of loss of crew of at most 1 in 1000 flights, which represents nearly an order of magnitude decrease from current vehicles. The goal o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zwack, Mathew R.
Other Authors: Mavris, Dimitri
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53095