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Unmanned Russian Soyuz Blows Up On Launch

Posted by timothy on from the what's-russian-for-nader dept.

adagioforstrings writes "CNN reports that a 300-tonne unmanned Soyuz-U launch vehicle exploded 29 seconds after take-off from Russia's Arctic Plesetsk cosmodrome late on Tuesday, its blazing debris showering onto the launchpad and its blastwave killing one and injuring eight others. A modified version of this same kind of rocket will be used to carry cosmonauts to the ISS later this month."

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  1. Slashdotters never cease to amaze me. by HaloZero · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your cpu-melting skills actually managed to down a Russian rocket! Way to go, guys! :D Is the server admin painting silohuettes of the servers slashdotters have killed on the side of the /. serving case(s)? Must be a long list.

    [And now for the obligatory...] "Could you imagine a beowulf cluster of THOSE?"

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  2. Sabotage? by uncoveror · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe it was sabotage. A ccidents do happen, but maybe someone wants the RSA to fail. NASA maybe?

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