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As SpaceX Rocket Explodes, Russia is Back on Top in Space Flight
Breitbart ^ | June 28, 2015 | Chriss W. Street

Posted on 06/28/2015 1:24:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket traveling at 2,900 mph, about 27 miles above the earth disintegrated 2 minutes and 19 seconds into its flight from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station.

It was a severe blow to NASA, still reeling from two previous failed Space Station resupply missions. The SpaceX failure is a reprieve for Russia’s Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft that will remain the prime Space Station servicer, despite recently renewed US sanctions against Russia.

The SpaceX launch, its seventh robotic cargo mission to the International Space Station, was running at what NASA called “on course, on track” before the mission failure.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: crashtroturf; crs7; falcon9; nasa; notevenclose; putinsbuttboys; russia; space; spacex; vladtheimploder
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Maybe it could be taken I was a little hard on Space X and forgot about the Russian Progress failure but it still gets my goat that we have to thumb rides off the Russians.


41 posted on 06/28/2015 9:19:32 PM PDT by Nowhere Man ("I wish we were back in the world of Andy Williams." - My mother, 1938-2013, RIP)
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There is more to SpaceX than just being able to launch without failure. They are attempting to advance the technology to make launches radically cheaper. Russians have the same expensive rockets from the 60s.


42 posted on 06/29/2015 7:20:39 AM PDT by Krosan
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