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richie
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24 Feb 2009, 4:53 pm
Rocket carrying NASA satellite crashes near Antartica
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By James Dean, Florida Today
A rocket carrying a NASA satellite crashed near Antarctica on Tuesday after an early-morning launch failure in California.
The $273.4 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory was designed to map carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere for at least two years.
NASA plans by Thursday to name the leader of an investigative board to determine the cause of the launch failure.
The failure is "a huge disappointment to the entire team that's worked very hard over years and years and really did their best to see it through," said Chuck Dovale, NASA's director for the observatory launch.
The satellite, about the size of a phone booth, was nine years in the making. The mishap occurred about three minutes into the flight.....
A rocket carrying a NASA satellite crashed near Antarctica on Tuesday after an early-morning launch failure in California.
The $273.4 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory was designed to map carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere for at least two years.
NASA plans by Thursday to name the leader of an investigative board to determine the cause of the launch failure.
The failure is "a huge disappointment to the entire team that's worked very hard over years and years and really did their best to see it through," said Chuck Dovale, NASA's director for the observatory launch.
The satellite, about the size of a phone booth, was nine years in the making. The mishap occurred about three minutes into the flight.....
Oooops!! !
MrMisanthrope
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24 Feb 2009, 5:00 pm
24 Feb 2009, 6:07 pm
24 Feb 2009, 7:05 pm
philosopherBoi wrote:
You would think for the amount of money this thing cost to make they would have done their job right and made sure it wouldn't crash and burn.
Because of course God knows it happened because them simpletons at NASA just too lazy.
