NASA Sub-Orbital Rocket Launch Failure

[MrBetterTube]

That was too much to spend on fireworks but it should make them work harder and make that rocket series better in the end.

[segafan230]

oh it that it was a fire work and said didn t this say it s a rocket but it seems nasa shoul go to firework business

[Elamin008]

I wasn't there but I can tell you these facts the distance between the camera man and launchpad is 3.4 Km ,  the rocket explode at the altitude of 3.8 Km , the distance between the camera man and the exploded rocket was 5.1 Km , rocket speed when exploded was 102 meter/sec

[repairdroid77]

Glad it was unmanned. That said, for a failure it looked pretty cool. Better luck next time.

[TheEgg185]

well...there goes our stimulus money

[Vectorsumio]

There's one ET not phoning home anymore.

[Utuber580]

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[kim8775]

i wonder if anyone was in there O_O

[TheEgg185]

@kim8775 i hope so

[CottonBelter]

When you wish upon a star.... Makes no difference who you are!

[MU51CxL0V3R]

Thats NOT a launch... CHUCK NORRIS SIMPLY MASTURBATED!!

[gottschlichmatthew]

one hell of a flare gun

[SmokingBeat]

* Wonderful *

Firework ;D

[likeicare300]

works for nothing

[MrHappy35000Br]

The dang gravity. :|

[JoseTwitterFan]

MADE IN CHINA

[bigcarpets]

@JoseTwitterFan You're probably right that all parts were made in China, but it was definitely assembled in the USA

[Qkumber1]

2 people

[heyeveryoneimcool]

A sub-orbital rocket? Mission accomplished? lol

[DJMetroPolice]

I like nasa because ;

Noob

Astronauts

Sucks

Always

[Iyoossaev]

@DJMetroPolice Well...

Not

Anyone

Syntax

Applies

[eZPdQ911]

make a wish lol

[SilverKey165]

that is what we call THUNDER CLAP firework..LOL

[rydgemolino]

nasa also did efx for independence day just look at that blast

[sam23696]

that wouldve been beta at day im just hoping no1 was inside but then it was only an orbital rocket

[madpyroman]

wait was that the beach where it landed or is it some place wet and was there any one killed

[gravesclay]

NASA almost always launches over open water, and clears the range prior to any launch. Being as this was a sub-orbital launch, on water, it was probably out of wallops, or kennedy. Both of which are located right on the ocean (in the case of wallops the pads are less than 100 yards from the water)... It most certainly landed in water.

[pimpmymail]

@madpyroman noooooo, no one died !!!!!! they just blew up for fun  -.-

[o0oassieo0o]

where there people in there? Are there always people in rockets when they take off.IF there are then none of this is funny because they parish

[SpartanW98]

no most of them are unmannd exept for space shuttle

[Roach1983]

What does this have to do with NASA again? You said in your description it was made by ATK

[lookingforfun70]

Funny thing is the safety officer that aborted probably cashed a $2,000 paycheck the next day. Yippee.

[astronoman11]

there goes your tax dollars, up in smoke lol

[NJPoolboy]

think about that for a second. It means that they have to build another one. All the people who work at the factory who build them get paid, and those people buy groceries, services, etc. It's never really a bad thing. Be worse if it sat in an account somewhere and didn't get spent.

[nsawilla]

and million $ are gone^^

[storm92jk]

Where was this launched?

[Matty231]

North Korea

[rocketman6881]

Whoops !!!

[solar793]

Good separation at 1:00 into the flight

[WormHorse17]

wow this makes me want to play Battlezone! the fire balls resemble the homing missiles!

[clubpenguin1413]

were there people in there

[rhudson18]

no. this was unmanned

[salil1991]

No, unmanned

[MiraculousJeff]

look! a shooting star! make a wish!.........ooh! another shooting star!

[realdoogie]

tax money well spent!!!!

[techohead01]

NASA should go into the fireworks business

[SpaceAnimator]

@techohead01 haha. lol

[NearSpace02]

Didn't ATK work on the X-43 project?

[lookarken]

???

[hmmcnally]

I'm impressed nobody's jumped on this with "why's the sound out of sync durf hurf" yet.

[Chocosizzles]

When the remants hit the ground, I was expecting a massive mushroom cloud.

[DerMacko]

shame that it got destroyed, but damn that looks neat. :D

[singedrac]

spy sappin' mah rocket

[CousinoMacul]

Damn!

[strasheep]

shit i feel so bad for the engineers who worked so hard for NOTHINGGGGG.

pity

engineering model??

[japaneseaggression]

i live right by ATK thiokol in Tremonton UT, and almost everyone in the town of tremonton works there. ATK is the one that built the rocket, and i heard that the reason they blew it up is cause the rocket was going off course. It was not caused by ATK but by the nose cone produced by some other company. ATK does make nose cones but they were more expensive than the other guys cone. so NASA opted to go with the sheeper nose cone. i guess NASA learned that ys get what ya pay for...

[mohodisco]

This is totally not true. The nosecone itself was a NASA experiment called Hy-BoLT. While the shape of Hy-BoLT would perturb the aerodynamics of a rocket more than a standard nose cone, the blame lies with ATKs guidance system.

[japaneseaggression]

there was a defect in the cheap piece of crap cone.....

[mohodisco]

I worked on the rocket, saw and touched the nosecone many times. There was no defect in it. What you are hearing (misunderstanding) from ATK people is the notion that the flat tip of the nosecone acted as a lifting body and pushed the rocket off course. But, based on what ATK officially says now, it is unlikely that this is what happened.

[japaneseaggression]

you could be right, but after all of ATK's mistakes like well i guess it would be Thiokols mistake, like the challanger, and this, why are they still working on it? granted that challanger was a lot of NASA's fault but still...

[mohodisco]

ATK has not built full rockets in the past, only rocket motors. This rocket was their first attempt at building a rocket guidance system, which is a very difficult thing to get right the first time. ATK wants to get into the commercial launch vehicle business. It is arguable that perhaps ATK learned more from the rocket failing than they did had it succeeded.

[japaneseaggression]

oh i see cool cool.

[ferretfrenzy05]

@strasheep truuuust me, they got multiple backups XD