Rocket carrying spacecraft crash.

[fjmeat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl12dXYcUTo

That must been LOUD!

 

[phucheneh]

That's not a 'crash.' It's just a horrible attempt at a rocket. Also Youtube takes away my will to live.

OMG this was horrible! I feel so bad for the russian astronauts. My thoughts and prayers are with the russian families who lost loved ones
My condolences from America. Russia and USA - friends forever

 

[Anonemous]

NSA did it.

 

[SsupernovaE]

Russia has been losing its edge in rocketry as of late. I wonder what's going on over there. Thankfully their Soyuz program is still working.

Meanwhile in the United States, private rocketry is exploding (in a good way) with no competition in sight from other countries.

 

[Printer Bandit]

probably will blame it on snowden since he was nearby.

 

[fjmeat]

Thank goodness NK didn't test their nukes this way. ...yet

 

[Elixer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl12dXYcUTo

That must been LOUD!

It actually was carrying 3 satellites...if you want to believe the russians, they were their version of GPS sats...

 

[Drako]

Why did they leave the engine running while filming? Camera shake was annoying.

 

[dud]

That's not a 'crash.' It's just a horrible attempt at a rocket. Also Youtube takes away my will to live.

Why all the hate for Youtube? I've found it to be a very useful site in many ways. Every time I have a "project" to work on I have found that multiple solutions exist there. Most instructional videos there are very informative.

Just MHO ...

 

[NetWareHead]

Wonder why the range safety officer didn't order the destruction of the rocket? Once the thing was sideways and at times pointing towards the ground, its fate was almost sealed...

 

[iamwiz82]

That shock wave was insane.

 

[vshah]

Wonder why the range safety officer didn't order the destruction of the rocket? Once the thing was sideways and at times pointing towards the ground, its fate was almost sealed...

in soviet russia, something something something.

 

[phucheneh]

in soviet russia, something something something.

in soviet russia, rocket launch aborts you.

 

[AustinInDallas]

in soviet russia, rocket launch aborts you.

nailed it

 

[colonelciller]

Russia has been losing its edge in rocketry as of late. I wonder what's going on over there. Thankfully their Soyuz program is still working.

Meanwhile in the United States, private rocketry is exploding (in a good way) with no competition in sight from other countries.

I counter with China.
...and unless there is a stockpile of recent examples of Russian failure, a single explosion does not constitute "losing its edge"

 

[Bacstar]

in soviet russia, something something something.

Read somewhere that these rockets don't have a self-destruct mechanism. They do have a timer on the rockets to keep burning for 42 seconds, so in case anything does go wrong that supposedly keeps the rocket from crashing back into the launch pad...

 

[ArizonaSteve]

Did they outsource the construction to China?

 

[SsupernovaE]

I counter with China.
...and unless there is a stockpile of recent examples of Russian failure, a single explosion does not constitute "losing its edge"

Nope, it's just the latest in a series of mishaps. Putin is so concerned that he pledged a substantial increase in funding to get their once most reliable program back up to snuff.

And as for China, they are just now catching up to where the United States, Russia, and Europe were at in 1990. I'm talking about the cost of launch. SpaceX is poised to completely dominate the industry over the next 5 years with their reusable rockets.

 

[Jeff7]

Wonder why the range safety officer didn't order the destruction of the rocket? Once the thing was sideways and at times pointing towards the ground, its fate was almost sealed...

"This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and will not go to space today."

 

[zinfamous]

"This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and will not go to space today."

Oh, that was funny.

 

[Number1]

Russia has been losing its edge in rocketry as of late. I wonder what's going on over there. Thankfully their Soyuz program is still working.

Meanwhile in the United States, private rocketry is exploding (in a good way) with no competition in sight from other countries.

??
The US doesn't even have a manned spacecraft.
WHo in your mind is losing it's edge?

 

[Jeff7]

Oh, that was funny.

Yes. I also laughed more than I probably should have at that one.
"Lots of fire comes out here."


I feel like trying my hand at a set of work instructions done up like that, for constructing sheetmetal enclosures.


"If the big machine makes red water leave your arm very fast, you are having a bad day, and will go far and fast in the bright red and white box car."

 

[KaOTiK]

lol one of the top comments right now

kerbal space program

 

[Fayd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl12dXYcUTo

That must been LOUD!

yeah, that's basically how my experience with kerbal space program goes.

 

[SsupernovaE]

??
The US doesn't even have a manned spacecraft.
WHo in your mind is losing it's edge?

I didn't say the United States is beating Russia in rocketry at the moment; commercial programs in the US are eclipsing everyone else in kg/$ metric--the most important measure of future success.

And by 2017 the US will have no less than four manned spacecraft: SpaceX's DragonRider (my favorite); Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser (a miniature shuttle); Boeing's CST-100; and NASA's SLS. Out of the four, only one or two will be selected for transporting crew to the ISS. The other(s) will be backup or used for commercial ventures. The SLS is designed with deep space in mind but it has the capability to dock with the ISS.