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Space is hard (Falcon 9 failure) (reply)

Leviathan — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 08:29:56 +0000

The SpaceX launch this morning failed just before the 2nd stage was to separate and ignite; damn, I saw it live on NASA-TV and didn't understand what I was seeing until the camera panned away from the debris plume.

-- Steve hates when that happens; no joke. At least no one was hurt.

Aye. It's hard to watch the video after the fact, waiting for it to happen. Can't imagine the stun that went through the brains of the people who worked on it when it failed.

I do have to say its destruction was beautiful in a way. The light and clouds and the speed of it happening - you don't see magical explosions like that happen everyday.

Ugh (reply)

ZackDark — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 02:36:12 +0000

I hate it too...

Well, I guess it is rocket science, huh?

SpaceX at least has a pretty good track record up to now (reply)

Funkmon — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 02:18:03 +0000

But we've had a lot of failures lately. I hope the private industry can solve the issues quicker and more efficiently than large government agencies.

Space is hard (Falcon 9 failure)

Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:41:23 +0000

The SpaceX launch this morning failed just before the 2nd stage was to separate and ignite; damn, I saw it live on NASA-TV and didn't understand what I was seeing until the camera panned away from the debris plume.

-- Steve hates when that happens; no joke. At least no one was hurt.