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Russia Botches Another Rocket Launch

Posted by Soulskill on from the at-least-they're-consistent dept.

astroengine writes "Three hours before a new crew arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, bringing the outpost back up to full staff for the first time in months, Russia racked up its fifth launch accident within a year. A Soyuz-2 rocket carrying a military communications satellite failed to reach orbit after blastoff from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia. The botched launch is again due to an upper-stage engine problem."

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  1. Re:Why so angry? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    America good! Russia bad! U-S-A! U-S-A!

    Unfortunately, when it comes to space tech, a lot of otherwise intelligent people never seem to be able get beyond that mentality, despite the Cold War having been over for a generation. Not that mindless nationalism is limited to space, of course, but it's one of the major hot buttons.

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.