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1987_sl said:
Skip to 4:30ish for the action
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It was unmanned, loaded with supplies for the ISS. Total cost of rocket and supplies, 200 mil. Supposedly all staff at the base accounted for and ok. Still pretty tragic in a way. Can't be a terribly positive environmental impact on those wetlands either.
 
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If the things Elon said about the engines those guys are using is true i am not surprised.
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Elon Musks Mission to Mars | WIRED

Musk: The results are pretty crazy. One of our competitors, Orbital Sciences, has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke. It uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the '60s. I don't mean their design is from the '60s-I mean they start with engines that were literally made in the '60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.
 
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Famm_sl said:
It was unmanned, loaded with supplies for the ISS. Total cost of rocket and supplies, 200 mil. Supposedly all staff at the base accounted for and ok. Still pretty tragic in a way. Can't be a terribly positive environmental impact on those wetlands either.
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Yeah, I'd be curious to see what the damage on the ground looks like. Did it take out half the launch facility? Or was it down range a bit?
 
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Yeah, I'd be curious to see what the damage on the ground looks like. Did it take out half the launch facility? Or was it down range a bit?
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Sure looked like it came straight back down on the launch pad.
 
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If any of you have ever been to one of these sites, you will see the area they launch from is typically MILES from any manned facilities. At Cape Canaveral, the launch center is ~3.5 miles away from the pads. The launch site doesn't have much to it.
 
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Actually all of that was inaccurate. None of the debris behaved in anywhere close to the way it actually would.

Also whether the story was good is subjective. I imagine if you told everyone who likes the story that the science was completely inaccurate, their opinion would rapidly change. That has been my experience, in any case. Hollywood is lucky people are ignorant of physics, I guess.
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Just so you know, if you don't stop whining about this shit I am putting you on ignore forever.
 
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Oh Fox News, you so funny!

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If the things Elon said about the engines those guys are using is true i am not surprised.
From
Elon Musks Mission to Mars | WIRED

Musk: The results are pretty crazy. One of our competitors, Orbital Sciences, has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke. It uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ?60s. I don?t mean their design is from the ?60s?I mean they start with engines that were literally made in the ?60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.
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Funny story: When the USSR collapsed and the old Soviet space programme went public, NASA looked at the engine designs and crapped their pants. The Russians were doing shit with engines in the 60s that NASA had consistently written off as unviable well into the 80s. So yeah, it's possible that there was a production flaw or degradation over time in one of the specific engines for that launch but the designitselfis solid as hell.

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If only Kerbal Space Programm looked liked that :/
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Not a good week for space

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashes, at least one pilot reported killed | Fox News

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket crashed during a test flight over the Mojave Desert Friday, killing at least one of the two pilots aboard and seriously injuring the other.

The company tweeted that SpaceShipTwo was flying under rocket power and then tweeted that it had "experienced an in-flight anomaly."

"During the test, the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of SpaceShipTwo," Virgin Galactic tweeted, adding the mothership landed safely.

The California Highway Patrol reported one fatality and one major injury. SpaceShipTwo is typically flown by two pilots.

Authorities said that the aircraft's co-pilot was killed in the crash, while the pilot, who ejected, was injured, according to Reuters. Citing Kern County Sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt, Reuters reported that the pilot was found at the scene and taken to a local hospital.

Ken Brown, a photographer who witnessed the crash, said the space tourism craft exploded after it was released from WhiteKnightTwo, the 'mothership' plane that carries it to a high altitude.
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I'm visiting Kennedy Space Center tomorrow, hopefully nothing crashes on me.
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