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28 Jun 2015, 9:27 am

I just watched on TV the SpaceX rocket just blew up, luckily no-one was aboard, I wasn't able to watch in person because of clouds. It was intended to carry supplies to the ISS on the Dragon capsule.
There will be a news article soon.



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28 Jun 2015, 10:15 am

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/06/28/spacex-launch-ends-in-failure-rocket-erupts/
http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/28/technology/spacex-rocket/index.html



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28 Jun 2015, 11:06 am

This is why they should have kept the space shuttles in service until they had a PROVEN replacement.


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28 Jun 2015, 3:25 pm

Raptor wrote:
This is why they should have kept the space shuttles in service until they had a PROVEN replacement.


2 space shuttles also blew up at one point, only those times, they did have people on board. Remember the 1986 Challenger and the 2003 Columbia disasters?



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28 Jun 2015, 6:10 pm

Jono wrote:
Raptor wrote:
This is why they should have kept the space shuttles in service until they had a PROVEN replacement.


2 space shuttles also blew up at one point, only those times, they did have people on board. Remember the 1986 Challenger and the 2003 Columbia disasters?

Don't make me laugh.
Out of over 130 missions there were two catastrophic failures, both attributable to NASA's institutional incompetence. Otherwise it was a solid even if dated system, the likes of which we don't have the pleasure of now.....


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