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In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.
Jerome Lederer
Director of Manned Space Flight Safety, NASA. First paragraph of Risk Speculations of the Apollo Project, a paper presented at the Wings Club, New York, New York, 18 December 1968.
Please accept my sincere thanks for your recent letter and for the enclosure describing the Sao Paulo helicopter rescues. I had it read to me (my eyesight has failed to such an extent that I can no longer read) and found it interesting indeed.
I always believed that the helicopter would be an outstanding vehicle for the greatest variety of life-saving missions and now, near the close of my life, I have the satisfaction of knowing this has proved to be true.
Igor Sikorsky
Letter to Jerome Lederer of the Flight Safety Foundation
25 October 1972. It is the last letter dictated and signed by Mr. Sikorsky. He died the next day, at age 84. This is the file copy held by the Sikorky Archives:
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Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.
Jerome Lederer
Director of the Flight Safety Foundation for 20 years and NASA's first director of Manned Flight Safety, quoted in his obituary, The New York Times, 9 February 2004.
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.
Jerome Lederer
Director of the Flight Safety Foundation for 20 years and NASA's first director of Manned Flight Safety, quoted in Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 11, 2007.
Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.
Jerome Lederer
Director of the Flight Safety Foundation for 20 years and NASA's first director of Manned Flight Safety, quoted in Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 11, 2007.
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