Space balloon wipes out car

[hawks9nkh]

To all the "way to waste the taxpayers money" comments: You should look into what the government is really wasting your money on. Trying to fund science projects to help us understand our world better definitely beats it.

[tryithere]

I didn't hear them say "Go at throttle up".

[pokemonfan156]

The Aliens did it. They don't like Cars anymore.

[codykode]

I accomplished my flight on Sept 5th, 2010 as well. You can see vids and more pics as well as how it was done at my website, aerialparade..com

Cody

[RCCEMS]

@doesmykeyboardwork NASA funds the research and launch and it was launched from Austrialia to get a view from to get a view from the southern hemisphere.

[hellomate639]

@RCCEMS

Who cares. I wish more of my tax dollars went to NASA so that I could see things unfolding faster.

[disposedsoul]

there goes half a million dollars of the taxpayers money!!! Well spent NASA!!

[doesmykeyboardwork]

@disposedsoul ...this was in australia

[startwiththeballs]

a nerd balloon at day not night creates fright my delight

[chrizzel0]

OUOUOUCH! They could feed a whole country with the spoiled money of this project...

[starwarsnut1701]

I doubt the Land Rover is down for good, after all, it is a Land Rover and there is a reason that 75% of them from 1948 to present are still being used.

To bad about the payload, however they still learned some thing from the experience.

[thepepijnsmits]

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL AHAAHHAA

[cruisinaus]

i think the only good part is that it got rid of one more landrover for us

[ggarzamejia]

For a moment it looked like a piñata. I think it can be repaired.

[fixer11]

Thank God nobody is dead! What a tragedy for those who worked on it for years. They will be back up and at 'em. Can't keep us human grounded.

[Choowbz]

Shades of Skylab

But seriously that is a terrible thing to have happened

I hope it has not deterred any further efforts to use balloons for space launches

By the way the shot of the silken balloon skin descending is strangely beautiful

Try playing it in reverse and it looks like its taking off

[auscop]

@Choowbz They plan on launching one again in a few weeks... Of course though with a different payload.

[DannyWeinkauf]

lol, not priceless

[3DFL3SH]

hahahahaha lmao..... know that's funny !! we actually needed that to happen and that because nothing like this ever happens in Australia enjoy people.. aw yeah shout-out to MEMO N HUSS

[auscop]

Justin, I didn't know you could run so fast. :) (@ 23secs) You should put your 4wd on e-bay and sell it. Only car in the world to be wiped out by a NASA balloon. :)

[superfuzz]

lol priceless

[laomaunkaew9]

Not good for this incident, but in the art form is very beautiful pictures. Thank you for posting.