Antares Rocket Explosion

[Santos]

I guess they should have used SpaceX rocket.

 

[jyoung8607]

I guess they should have used SpaceX rocket.

Yeah, that rocket had a bad problem and it will not go to space today.

This incident will do no particular good for getting commercial manned flights approved on anyone's rocket. However, I'm betting SpaceX is fielding all sorts of calls from nervous owners of satellites that were scheduled to go up on Orbital Sciences rockets.

Jason

 

[Uwe]

It's been done before:

 

[vreihen]

It's been done before:

People are surprised to see the Antares explode like a 1960's disaster as shown above. If they knew that the engines powering the first stage of last night's mishap were designed/built by the Soviets in the 1960's for their cancelled moon rocket program and subsequently purchased by NASA after being mothballed for 30+ years, they wouldn't be as shocked with the outcome:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK-33

Give SpaceX credit for making their own rocket engines, and not buying/licensing space relics from the Russians.....

 

[Jack@European_Parts]

Personally I am here for the music for each launch...............

 

[jyoung8607]

It's not a good week to go to space.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014...lactic-spaceshiptwo-destroyed-in-test-flight/

 

[Uwe]

Hmm... Both crewmembers ejected, yet one was killed and the other suffered serious injuries?

Being a test pilot is a dangerous profession.

 

[Adam]

Yes... and now we have hexacopters / quadcopters era and things became even more dangerous than it was in the past -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQjnfm5BGPQ#t=172