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Do their engineers smoke pot?
2 posted on
07/18/2013 10:57:00 AM PDT by
miserare
(Fire Eric Holder!)
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A few weeks back, a Russian rocket called Proton-M exploded over a spaceport in Kazakhstan a few seconds after it launched.
5 posted on
07/18/2013 10:58:24 AM PDT by
dfwgator
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And these guys launch our astronauts into space these days...
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7 posted on
07/18/2013 10:59:07 AM PDT by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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I would blame this on the engineer not the technician. If there is a specific orientation required for a piece of hardware, the device should be designed and constructed to only fit in one way.
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And some people think the Chinese can conduct aircraft carrier operations?
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Back in the 1960s, a missile was launched out of Vandenberg AFB with an improperly-installed inertial-nav system.
Instead of heading south, as was intended, it headed east towards Los Angeles.
Due to the improperly-installed sensor, it scraped the self-destruct package off the missile as it came out of the silo, so the Range Safety Officer was unable to destroy it.
Fortunately, as it was shedding its self-destruct package, it also damaged itself badly-enough that it disintegrated on its own shortly thereafter, before it got to LA.
12 posted on
07/18/2013 11:02:22 AM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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The part that terrified me, was there was no action taken by the Range Safety Officer.
They do have a Range Safety Officer, don’t they? Don’t they???
13 posted on
07/18/2013 11:04:20 AM PDT by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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14 posted on
07/18/2013 11:04:42 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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I understand that kind of error was caught early in the Minuteman development program. Someone must have realized which end was the pointy end.
16 posted on
07/18/2013 11:05:54 AM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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17 posted on
07/18/2013 11:06:33 AM PDT by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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An easy mistake to make, one would suppose, except for the minor fact that they had arrows on them showing which way was up and which way was down. I would point out that it's possible that the rocket was on its side when this was installed, meaning the mistake is easier to make.
18 posted on
07/18/2013 11:06:38 AM PDT by
Izzy Dunne
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Ah. The old “upside-down” trick. I know it well.
19 posted on
07/18/2013 11:06:51 AM PDT by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
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Turns out it was an EV error on the sensor bank.
(EV = Excessive Vodka)
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Maybe the tech and the inspector had to bend over to read the label, so from that perspective, it look right.
To: reed13
Bfl for root cause analysis and keyed assemblies
23 posted on
07/18/2013 11:10:19 AM PDT by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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The person responsible for this mistake was an inexperienced technician. Whats more, his work, records indicate, was never double-checked. Has this hapless person been executed?
25 posted on
07/18/2013 11:12:55 AM PDT by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Looks like my modified bottle rockets on the fourth of July.
26 posted on
07/18/2013 11:15:17 AM PDT by
11th Commandment
(http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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Looks like my modified bottle rockets on the fourth of July.
30 posted on
07/18/2013 11:20:25 AM PDT by
11th Commandment
(http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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