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I've tried to find other stats but I couldn't easily find more recent numbers. 2% is the lowest fatality rate I found. There are some statements at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_acc... but they're not changing the picture by much:

>> About five percent of the people that have been launched have died doing so. [..] About two percent of the manned launch/reentry attempts have killed their crew, with Soyuz and the Shuttle having almost the same death percentage rates.



100 is a bit of an artificial number. The only launch vehicle in history that has had 100 manned launches has been the Shuttle, but that was a factor more of the wealth of the US than the inherent reliability of the system. Consider that Russia/USSR have only had about 2/3 of 100 total manned flights of any kind on any launcher.




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