3 Big Bangs in one day on FB

thisisguitar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29812139

Ooops

littlegreenman

Happy it was an unmanned launch.

mike_l

That was a huge bang.

breakstuff

Oh dear!

Jalapeno

Lot of mis-reporting by the BBC on this - it didn't explode in an uncontrolled way - the flight controller blew it up because they thought it was going to go out of control.

Fretwired

Jalapeno said:

Lot of mis-reporting by the BBC on this - it didn't explode in an uncontrolled way - the flight controller blew it up because they thought it was going to go out of control.

NBC claims an engine blew up [they have done so before in testing] .. I'd have thought the flight controller would have waited until it was clear of the launch pad before blowing it up. As it happens the launch pad's been wiped out ... NASA really has lost its way.

ICBM

Fretwired said:

NBC claims an engine blew up [they have done so before in testing] .. I'd have thought the flight controller would have waited until it was clear of the launch pad before blowing it up. As it happens the launch pad's been wiped out ... NASA really has lost its way.

They possibly didn't want to risk it veering off and causing even more damage somewhere else.

This wasn't NASA either - it's a private company. NASA has lost its way too though.

not_the_dj

NASA's budgets have been seriously cut, they go out to tender making it a competitive situation between the various companies fighting for the contract...costs are saved to maximise margins....and KaBOOM!

ICBM

That's always been the case. I seem to remember an anecdote by one of the early astronauts, being asked by an engineer "how do you feel sitting on top of a rocket when you know that every part has been built by the lowest bidder?"

The direct cause of the first Space Shuttle accident was Morton-Thiokol's management overruling their own technicians about the safe operating temperature, because they didn't want to lose their contract for the Solid Rocket Boosters...

not_the_dj

How much are those tickets for the first commercial space flight again?  :-SS

VimFuego

Jalapeno said:

Lot of mis-reporting by the BBC on this - it didn't explode in an uncontrolled way - the flight controller blew it up because they thought it was going to go out of control.

oh boy, I'd love to be the guy with his finger on that button.

Cirrus

I'd wait until it was almost at orbital velocity and just before the first slap on the back on the floor of mission control...

BOOOM! Fuck y'all!!!

mike_l

VimFuego said:

Jalapeno said:

Lot of mis-reporting by the BBC on this - it didn't explode in an uncontrolled way - the flight controller blew it up because they thought it was going to go out of control.

oh boy, I'd love to be the guy with his finger on that button.

Yeah, but you'd have a remote control fitted and blow it up over a heavily populated area.

Or Somerset.

Fretwired

VimFuego said:

Jalapeno said:

Lot of mis-reporting by the BBC on this - it didn't explode in an uncontrolled way - the flight controller blew it up because they thought it was going to go out of control.

oh boy, I'd love to be the guy with his finger on that button.

Think about the poor bastard who had to light the blue touchpaper and then run like hell ... those Russian engines take some lighting ..

chillidoggy

You see, this is where they need Emp's expertise.

thisisguitar

I feel sorry for the astronauts up there waiting for the Mars bars that will never arrive. 

ICBM

not_the_dj said:

How much are those tickets for the first commercial space flight again?  :-SS

Not looking good…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29857182

Phil_aka_Pip

Eccentrica Gallumbits would be quite happy with 3 big bangs ...

not_the_dj

ICBM said:

not_the_dj said:

How much are those tickets for the first commercial space flight again?  :-SS

Not looking good…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29857182

Blimey that's bad :-( My sons have been really getting into space stuff the last few weeks, I took them to the space centre in Leicester the other weekend and we've been watching the shuttle docs on the iPlayer together. it's so weird to think that NASA can't put a man in space on their own these days...and private companies are having a go.