There goes the environment.
Global warming?
Muslim outreach fail?
NASA is paying billions of dollars to Orbital Sciences and the SpaceX company to make station deliveries, because Putin won’t do it for us anymore since we’ve enforced sanctions against him.
The rocket scientists were off on a muslim outreach program and were unavailable for comment.
Heyyy, bada BING, bada BOOM!
Contrary to many of the comments here, there isn’t a damned thing funny about this.
I left the immediate area 3 hours ago, but there are still some marsh fires burning. I’m 10 miles away and can still smell it.
We used to be able to put rockets into space and land men on the moon and return them safely, we used to be able to fly spacecraft to and from the space station, we used to be respected by the world until..... The Fundamental Transformation.
Obama is a failure at everything, except destroying our country and way of life.
Putin has got to be laughing his head off.
The geniuses the CPUSA has hired over the last 6 years are achieving CCCP type efficiency.
Apparently the USA under the CPUSA regime of HUSSEIN BARAKA can’t even launch a supply rocket.
COMMUNISTS OUT!!!
Something about the incompetence of every federal agency including NASA under Obama - maybe they’re spending too much time and money fabricating evidence of global warming to make the rockets fly straight anymore.....
My M-I-L lives a stone’s throw from there. Really close! In fact, my husband’s father used to work there, tracking rockets, satellites, etc. That was YEARS ago, though! I cannot believe that no one was injured! That looked bad!
Uses a modified Soviet engine design applicable to the 1960’s moon rocket N1, notable for producing a pad explosion seen by a U.S. weather satellite.
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/n1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_%28rocket%29
Runs an oxygen rich turbo-pump staged combustor , and has a record of engine burn thru.
Gene Krantz, John Aaron, and others are just rolling their eyes.
BTTT