1 See, for example, Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail by Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori, W.W. Norton, 1992; and “Achieving Reliability: The Evolution of Redundancy in American Manned Spacecraft” by James E. Tomayko, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1985, vol. 38, p. 545–552.

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