Space Exploration Accidents From 1950 till Now

[beer]

Wow...

I had no clue there were so many accidents. NASA seems safe compared to the European Space Agency and Russian projects, though....

 

[acidvoodoo]

woah

 

[coolVariable]

NASA seems safe compared to the European Space Agency and Russian projects, though....

You are joking right?
The Russians have had the most accidents followed by NASA.
ESA had far fewer than NASA.

Count it.

 

[achiral]

look how many happened in the last 10 years compared to the last 40 before then. thats nuts

 

[Torghn]

Originally posted by: coolVariable

NASA seems safe compared to the European Space Agency and Russian projects, though....

You are joking right? The Russians have had the most accidents followed by NASA. ESA had far fewer than NASA. Count it.

That's becuase ESA never does anything.

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

 

[HombrePequeno]

Originally posted by: coolVariable

NASA seems safe compared to the European Space Agency and Russian projects, though....

You are joking right?
The Russians have had the most accidents followed by NASA.
ESA had far fewer than NASA.

Count it.

ESA's Ariane rocket isn't exactly known for it's safety...

Sure NASA might have had a few more accidents but they've been around longer.

 

[ElFenix]

wow, the russians have killed a lot of people on the ground

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: coolVariable

NASA seems safe compared to the European Space Agency and Russian projects, though....

You are joking right?
The Russians have had the most accidents followed by NASA.
ESA had far fewer than NASA.

Count it.

sigh
some people I think just lack a total sense of common sense

ESA doesn't do anything! They don't have many accidents because they don't have as many projects! And look at the sheer number of people killed in Russian accidents. They don't have spacecraft blowing up on the launch platform becasue they aren't launching many things lately.

One of my EE profs is always ragging on the ESA for the software in their rockets. It makes microsoft windows 95 seem bug free.

 

[beer]

ESA basically has as many total lauches as we have shuttle launches ALONE. Don't even guess how many hundreds of other NASA rockets went up into orbit.

 

[TapTap]

Those are just the ones we know about (Russians)...the Chinese have stated they are going to implement manned missions also starting '04...get ready for more tragic accidents

 

[Tominator]

January 1967 -- Three U.S. astronauts -- Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Edward White -- die in a "flash fire" aboard Apollo 1 during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral.

The Ruskies were ahead of us here. They learned long before to mix the oxygen with nitrogen to inhibit fires, while NASA choose to ignore this. Pure oxygen is what caused this accident. A rapid change was made by NASA....