Rocket Launch Mishaps

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[meteor4163]

0:22 I think this is what the real hell looks like.

[Sugarsail1]

Viagra needed.

[TreesOfBaylor]

Lol that first rocket just didnt want to get out of bed

[tdbf2142]

Oh ya, and as stated bellow, it is using the balloon tank concept. I dont need to explain

[TheBigDolphin1]

lol

[whydiewhenyoucanlive]

fail!!! =)

[chaztin]

Rockets that fell into nigerian scam

[regcer]

They selfdestructed the last one. As soon at it angle 5 degrees past normal it selfs destructs for safety reasons.

[elkinsinbox]

That one at 0:23 just fell apart for some unexplained reason. They probably built that one out of drywall (sheetrock type material.)

[chromecrescent]

lol

[heathirving]

it was an atlas missile which is built using a "balloon tank"

concept. pressure in the tank must be maintained or what you saw will occur.

[2mad4peace]

Made in North Korea LOL.

[HellRemains666]

holy hell. epic!

[dangerouslytalented]

You should have included the V2 mishaps.

Of course, rocketry is a dangerous business. You really need to be a rocket scientist to do it successfully.

[pinkqoh]

thats sad why did they make the rocet in 0:23 they r like owning LIFE

[Anticyclonic]

Heh, the last one went higher and straighter in pieces than it did when it was actually a whole rocket.

[fantactical]

the last one iz coool

[philkarn]

I don't think any of these involved hydrazine. The explosions were much too spectacular to be hydrazine. Except for the solid-fueled Minuteman, they all looked like kerosene and LOX.

[jn678]

Titans used hydrazine as the fuel and nitrogen tetraoxide as the oxidizer. No ignition system required. Kinda dangerous, but we didn't lose any Gemini missions as I recall.

[philkarn]

The Titan II (Gemini) used Aerozine-50 (50% hydrazine, 50% UDMH) plus N2O4. The Titan I was kerosene/LOX.

Gemini VI could have been a disaster. It cut off on the pad and could have fallen over, but Schirra did not eject.

[solomen2345]

umm...  ouch....

[khakivideos]

i don't want to fly in a rocket anymore :(

[Capum5]

Whoa, I was listening to Man In The Box by Alice In Chains when watching this...fit very, very perfectly.

[porkyfry]

haha, whoever made the rocket at :23 needs to be fired. What, did they make it out of paper?

[lkpcs]

you are right

and the first one wasn't a picnic either

[bikingchad]

The rocket at 0:23 was an Atlas with "balloon tanks" which use fuel pressure as its primary structure. Any drop in pressure or miscalculation of required pressure would cause the rocket to collapse under its own weight. Almost certainly, thats what happened there. But still, a curious design..

[tdbf2142]

@porkyfry Hey! Guess what, this is SLC-4W on Vandenberg Air Force Base when they used launch atlases in the 60's. Now they retired it after the Titan 2s. And it is made of light aluminium, good question though. If it was made of steel, it would be too heavy

[artwleb]

@tdbf2142 Atlas was made of 303 stainless steel in the tank sections - from .017 to

.040 inch thicknesses.

[USAmerican100]

@porkyfry

The booster fuel tank had a leaking valve and it lost pressure. The Atlas had light weight "balloon" tanks which required air pressure to keep them rigid, loss of that pressure led to collapse.

[thetrashyboy]

@porkyfry Shhhhh...The paper rocket was CLASSIFIED!!

[yesturtle]

yeah i did

[skullxer]

did anyone see the warhead fall off and then explode after the rest did?

[jimyjim36]

I think if the warhead had exploded separately the camera would have been destroyed along with any trace of the launch site. The only warheads these generally carry are nuclear. Know what you mean though, there were some pretty nasty explosions on there =]

[XmegaPresident]

I have heard that if the rocket is going off course or going to be a danger, controllers "self destruct" them.

[WoWaddict3d]

He accidently put it on reverse on the first clip :S

[Reds1500]

you dont put rockets in reverse dumb shit

[dtuetujetui]

lol '0:30'

[aremisasling]

The funniest was the one that just bent in half. I bet they were glad it didn't burn up the launch site. Perhaps it was a test shell.

[Parkinson9999]

the last one was the best.

[dryrun79]

yup

[BoboVicus]

uh oh spagettio! D=

[richardwhat]

Where did that line get famous from?

[BoboVicus]

Don't ask me lol

[joyjoyooO]

wasnt it simpsons? hehe

but wow poor rocket XD

[roughrider040]

Spaghetti "O's"-- get it? You know, the canned "Spaghetti O's?" The commercial? "Uh-oh, Spaghetti O's" That was there trademark for Spaghetti O's!

[hippie0man]

oopsie

[PonyExpressNYC]

The one with the Atlas-Agena...I understand that the Atlas' skin was intentionally so thin that it literally had to be inflated with fuel to support its own weight. I guess this is what happens if it isn't inflated properly.

[artwleb]

Atlas was gas pressurized to maintain shape with or without

propellants on board...made of stainless steel with thcknesses of .017 to .040 inches. Amazing manufacturing feat.

[Samuelgames]

lol?

[pannono]

lol at :23

[artwleb]

Details:

1) Thor at Cape Canaveral 1957 thrust decay

2) Atlas at VAFB October 1963 one engine failed to ignite

3) Atlas-Agena at VAFB May 1963 prelaunch tests with dummy second stage

4) Minuteman at VAFB date?

[Greaselburger]

They proberly get used to it failing from time to time... "allright, who's fault was it this time?"

[crispycritterz]

I feel bad for the guy that's got to run up and light the fuse...

[cloudedsky56]

Well actually there is something called Mission Control Center, where a series of switches and buttons are thrown and pressed, causing sevral ignighters to light the fuel chamber, which causes the fuel to burn, causing thrust. These tests were probably the failed rocket launch attempts made in the 60's for all of the Appollo missions.

And as a note the crash at :45 was the most common type of crash as the rocket would tip, causing all of the fuel to ignite, or expode.

[crispycritterz]

This is what I get for trying to be funny. The earlier missiles (Thor and Atlas) had miserable records. Thor had problems with fuel delivery (turbo pump failure usually.) Atlas had a myriad of problems the most pronounced was the guidance system. These were modified ballistic missiles, (Except for the Minuteman III at the end)so adapting them to deliver a sub-orbital payload was hit or miss at best.

[swampo1212]

lol are u being sarcastic?

[bri3d]

lol @ the first one

usually when we build things to launch, they have more thrust than weight?

i guess... not?

[kryk101]

great balls of fire! :P

[aimtitanspunk]

fire in a hole... somebody just shooting me with rockets...

[steviesmasher]

lol

[gnarlydan]

1 & 1/2 seconds in, Scientist are all like

"Oh, F"

[Antonie112]

one small mistake of a man, one big explosion for us!

[rnech]

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[stonerlad25]

fire meet rocket fuel

[hobofreakchild]

huston we have a problem

[valleycolts2]

lol tht was some bad explosion... feel sorry for the pplz tht built it, were inside it and tht pplz round it... =[, but funny

[Defender78]

gosh at 33 seconds - thats embarrassing

[heysafilikefruits2XD]

LOLOLOLOL

[crazygrainger2006]

This should be renamed "Rocket Launch Bloopers"

[MFCBastion]

Sweet, I've always wanted to see video of that Minuteman III explosion.

[goney3]

Hehehe, god I remember the brush fires those things caused. Great memories! Thanks for sharing these!

[ewthmatth]

third one is just pathetic :/

[Postie1]

Some engineer got fired for that one.

[HaloLvl43Legit]

By the looks of it He probly got his 3rd grade kid to just glue it together

[Postie1]

LOL !!!!

[HueyFE]

Missle Geeks stop wearing flight suits and spings

[MegaUltraGalactic79]

What is the second launch?

[njmike38]

Could use some of these clips on a VIAGRA ad...?

[benavesdownunder]

ROFLMAO

[HaloLvl43Legit]

LOL

[JWall416]

It's a good (?) thing the Soviets never got these tapes, or they would have probably laughed themselves to death.

[einstein0324]

what country?

[Postie1]

USA, sad, but funny.

[WallacePSmith]

"Our rockets always explode" was the phrase back in 1960. It was a given that the Soviet Union was way ahead. The "Missle Gap" was a household name. Think we live in scary times now?

[bezerker4828]

LOL the best one was where the top fell off of it sideways

[BigBrotherMateyka]

Very well done. Nice compilation. :)

I give it 5.

[Anticyclonic]

OMG, I can't believe that one rocket just like cracked and fell over.

[miketwo345]

Today's liquid-based rockets are made with such thin margins that they have to be pressurized to hold up their own weight. Just like you can stand on a closed Coke can, but you can crush an open one.

[cag1970]

That rocket that fell over was a static test article of the Atlas-Agena vehicle.  Atlas vehicles were extremely thin-skinned, and had to be pressurized in order to maintain its shape. That vehicle was full of sand, thankfully, and not live propellant!

[smoothvirus]

that explains it. I was wondering why it didn't blow up!

[Ribozyme]

The last one seems to be an ICBM... it wouldn't be nice if this happened with one with the nuclear warheads installed... of course if armed ICBMs had to be launched, the whole situation would be beyond "not nice"...

[Dopplershift]

Could be wrong but I think the warheads are designed not to go off in that situation, not that I'd want to be the one to test it :D

[cag1970]

Yep, that last one is a Minuteman ICBM. Looked like it might have been heading from Vandenburg down the Pacific Range to Kwajalein.

[lordoftheharvest]

post the lots more, that was tight.