85. What is the risk of something breaking on the spaceship? (A K2S Question)

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It is certainly possible that anything could malfunction on the spaceship. This risk is reduced by using extremely reliable parts, and then redundancy is built in to provide safe operation in case of failure. In general, the approach is to provide more redundancy in systems that are critical to the safe operation of the spacecraft.

Answer provided by Jon H. Brown


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