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by philwelch 736 days ago
The Shuttle was human rated (though in retrospect, perhaps wrongly) despite having basically both of those exact same flaws.
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Not just perhaps wrongly, definitely wrongly by NASA's own late security analysis, which led to the early discontinuation of the Shuttle program. The Space Shuttle is a major reason why the security standards for human rating anything is now much higher than for initially human rating the Space Shuttle.