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Amateur Rocket Launch a Failure; NASA Debuts Shuttle-cam

Posted by michael on from the jennicam-gets-upstaged dept.

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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  1. Stand back, I am an engineer. by Buck2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Allow me to be the first to say:

    SONOFABITCH!!

    GODDAMMIT!!

    fuck

    crap

    *sigh*

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  2. So... 'terminated' eh? by Spazntwich · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that what they call 'just letting the fucking thing crash into the ground' nowadays?

  3. Calling John Carmack! by RatBastard · · Score: 5, Funny

    John! When is Armadillo Aerospace going to show these n00bs how it's done? Screw Doom 3, get your ass to Mars!

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  4. How could an amateur rocket fail? by intermodal · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean, it's not rocket science...oh, wait...

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  5. Whaddya mean "failure"? by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Darwin Awards Club is calling it a "promising success".

    Motto: "To boldly die like no man has died before" :-)

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  6. By this same argument... by amstrad · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...open source software is bound to fail and we should all use Microsoft software since they employ some of the smartest and most experienced people in the world and I would not trust anyone else to be writing operating systems to control my servers.

  7. What they need is a PR expert by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Our experiment to study the smoke and debri dissapation patterns of atmospheric explosions has been a complete success!"

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  8. Re:amateur rocketetry is irresponsible by jmoriarty · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nasa employs some of the smartest and most experienced people in the world and I would not trust anyone else to be launching rockets in to the sky. I believe NASA should have a monopoly on space travel as they are the only ones who seem to get it right.

    Oh? Feet != Meters

  9. Re:amateur rocketetry is irresponsible by Alsee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Feet != Meters

    Well duhhh! Everyone knows a meter equals a yard, not a foot!

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