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 Posted: 23:27 - 28 Oct 2014  Post subject: Bit early for Bonfire night |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTB_eBiPfuc
NASA rocket explodes spectacularly just after take off...
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Posted: 07:59 - 29 Oct 2014  Post subject: |
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And we managed to get to the moon before 
Nice explosion though! |
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Not NASA, Orbital Sciences. NASA money got burned though, so cue a massive seven tier investigation which will cost much, much more than Orbital saved cheaping out on whatever minor part failed.
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| Quote: | An Orbital Sciences rocket operating under a NASA contract exploded shortly after launch on Tuesday evening, much to everyone's surprise — except, perhaps, Elon Musk.
Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, trashed Orbital Sciences for using outdated Russian engines during a 2012 Wired interview:
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. |
Original interview : https://www.wired.com/2012/10/ff-elon-musk-qa/all/
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Main engine at 108% 
If they were all with their consoles no wonder it blew up. Surely Sonic can wait.
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