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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.
Allow me to be the first to say:
SONOFABITCH!!
GODDAMMIT!!
fuck
crap
*sigh*
As my father lik@(munch munch)...
Just look at the original proposal and plans, and look what they've cut it back to. All it is a big jobs project. And the Space Shuttle technology is so old they are having to scrounge eBay for old computer parts.
I'm sorry, but it just makes me sick. And we actually think NASA some day will send someone to Mars. Yeah right. We need someone to come along and either replace NASA entirely, or at the very least scare them into cutting back the beaurocracy and actually performing again.
John! When is Armadillo Aerospace going to show these n00bs how it's done? Screw Doom 3, get your ass to Mars!
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Pretty much the same thing that would happen if an aged driver had a heart attack and crashed his car into a Department of Motor Vehicles service facility.
Or if a restaurant exploded because of a faulty natural gas valve.
Or if an airliner had a mechanical problem that caused it to crash into a suburban neighborhood.
Or if a cosmetic medical device caused unforseen side effects later on.
Liability insurance, my man. Liability insurance.
Guess who doesn't have to have it: NASA
Guess who doesn't have to pay if they fuck up: NASA
Guess who picks up the tab if they do: you and me
Edith Keeler Must Die
...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.
"Our experiment to study the smoke and debri dissapation patterns of atmospheric explosions has been a complete success!"
Table-ized A.I.
When I submitted the article (yeah, little bit of bitterness), I added the following link:
Web Sources for NASA TV, or http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/ntvweb.html for the link-fearing.
Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but copyright will always protect me.
"Rockets" are hard to get right. If they weren't, everyone would have ICBMs by now.
-Paul
I helped out at this launch attempt as part of the recovery team and I can tell you the following:
Amateur rocketry, like all rocketry, is used to failure
If you've met or heard of Ky, you'd realize that he has had plenty of successes and failures to deal with. And Ky is just the CEO of sorts to what amounts to a massively talented technical team. Having gotten the rocket off the ground was an accomplishment itself; the FAA puts enormous safety restrictions on the launch, of which very few are satisfied at any given moment.
The failure itself wasn't that dangerous either. The rocket did not explode like a fireball. It just made a sort of "pop" sound and broke into pieces. The selection of the launch site has a lot to do with ensuring that such pieces don't come down and harm anyone.