Amateur Rocket Launch a Failure; NASA Debuts Shuttle-cam

Anonymous Coward writes "CNN has posted the story of the failure of the amateur rocket launch that was reported in a previous Slashdot story. 'The launch was spectacular and the rocket was performing as planned. However, the rocket experienced motor failure during the flight and the flight was terminated," said Eric Knight, co-leader of the CSXT mission.' NASA is planning to mount a camera on the external fuel tank and broadcast an October 2nd shuttle launch.

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Re:amateur rocketetry is irresponsible

[RealAlaskan]

Nasa employs some of the smartest and most experienced people in the world ...

That's the same bunch who screwed up metric --> english conversion and crashed a martian lander, right?

I believe NASA should have a monopoly on space travel as they are the only ones who seem to get it right.

I hope that was a joke, but it didn't look like one. Maybe your irony and sarcasm was too subtle for me.

If enough of the intellect-impared were to take that seriously, we'd outlaw commercial aviation because someone might might fly a plane into a building. We'd outlaw driving cars for the same reason. We'd outlaw cooking because you might burn down the neighborhood.

``We'd outlaw commercial aviation ...'' Hmmm. Well, maybe you weren't joking. There are a lot of intellect-impared people about nowadays.