[dnautics]

RUD is very much a euphemism that has I guess drifted a bit from it's initialism; I'm pretty sure in this case the disassembly was planned and the survival case would have been unplanned.

[sp332]

Sure but "lithobraking" takes too much space in a tweet.

[samatman]

I take your point, but they're not planning for a launch failure even if they're pretty sure that's what's going to happen.

What happened when most of the mass of a Space Shuttle launch hits the ocean: that's an RPD.

[ctdonath]

If you’re not planning for failure modes you’re not engineering correctly.