NASA Rocket explodes shortly after takeoff
 

http://www.iflscience.com/space/brea...tly-after-take

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...l#.VFDgafnF_D4

That's a big (and expensive) fireball!

Very expensive.

Good it was unmanned.

Million dollar fireworks.

Russians launch cargo ship to space station after U.S. failure :1orglaugh

$200 million

yeah because the russians have never had rockets explode on them...

Proton-M rocket carrying Russia's most advanced satellite crashes

but the Russian rockets are still the best..

2:55

Yup, very good.

I wonder if someone gets fired when shit blows up like this heh

Nah. They just spent $200 million to train them.

elon wasnt in charge

Good stuff.

Did you know the rockets used for the launch were made in..... Russia?

No, that rocket was made in the USA. However it was equipped with old Soviet engines (made in... the Soviet Ukraine) which were in the warehouse since... early 70s :1orglaugh

That's not a joke, BTW.

Vintage cruisin? :helpme

Let me rephrase. The engines were made in the Soviet Union.

However, I seriously question why we are using Soviet engines, no less why we are using engines from the 1970s.

Welcome to the wonderful world of privatized space flight.

Just watched it on the news there.

Didn't sound too good for NASA the fact the Russian one which launched from Kazakhstan made the trip no problems...Ah well.

Yet another Obama failure! Benghazi!

It's not Nasa's fault. Funding to Nasa was cut a long time ago. Bad for nasa, but good for private companies like Space-X which are taking up the slack.

they are practically the same and have their own problems so no.. they don't.

They were made in Soviet Ukrainian Republic more than 40 years ago. Note: not designed, but physically made. These engines were never used on Soviet rockets. They were a part of cancelled Soviet maned Moon landing project. Neither Soviet Union nor Russia has produced them for the real rockets. The USA just bought all that old rusty junk from Soviet warehouses. I really don't understand those idiots who decided to use that shit on their modern rockets. Guys, design your own rocket engines already and stop using the 40+ year old Soviet technology which is was decommissioned by Russia a long time ago.

Nope, they do. 5371 rockets were launched to the space by the Earth humanity (441 failed) and 2800 of 5371 were launched by Soviet Union/Russia.

"NASA is disappointed that Orbital Sciences' third contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station was not successful."

So this was a privatized mission.