ISS leaking air

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Al Globus wrote:
>
> On Jan 10, 2004, at 5:34 PM, ANTIcarrot wrote:
>
> > 3) NASA's dumb minimum weight obsession means things are over
design,
> > over tested and under reliable once they get in orbit.
> >
> If your system weight goes over you can't get into orbit, at all.
>
> Of 36 objects sent to Mars by humans, only 7 have worked correctly.
6
> from NASA and 1 from Europe. All of Japan's and Russia's probes
have
> failed. Some of the US probes that failed avoided NASA's ... "over
> design, over tested, ..." approach --- oops. Based on the evidence
it
> seems the level of testing and design needs to be very high.
>
> As to unreliability, many of NASA's systems have lived far beyond
their
> design life. Other's have failed prematurely. I'm not aware of
any
> other organization that does a lot of space work that has a better
> reliability record. I know of some that have a worse record.