Delta Launch Accident

[D3monPr0ductions]

no one was injured?? there were just a few thousand deaths probably -.-

[AvoinTarina]

An anomaly? That's a nice understatement...

[strizhi]

A 17 foot long crack? How the hell did they miss that???

[pokewiz309]

If a caveman or chicken saw this, they probably would have said something like," The ky is falling! The Sky is falling!"

A 17 foot long crack in the solid rocket boosters.... How do you miss that!!! I Mean seroiusly, the guy at nasa that's supposed to check that must have been slaking off big time! Good thing no one got hurt though!

[copperhamster]

@pokewiz309 I don't know the details, but it could have been, say, a 17' long stress crack on the inside of the solid rocket booster tube, which appeared after they filled it. The only way to detect that would be to xray it after the fact.

[TheKazable]

@copperhamster

Yep... and they store those solid motors for months/years after loading them so it could have occoured over time.... and although the crack was 17' long id bet it was probably something like a couple thousands of an inch thick.... virtually invisible/

[yarintsukrun]

holy sh! t, it is murderous! It was fortunate that space shuttle astronauts as Columbia and chalnger.

Columbia -

[reallyfubar]

17 foot crack... was the reason for failure... of Washington DC mayor, film at 11!

[MrStephenRGilman]

"We've had an anomaly..."

Love it!

[evanpine1]

ummm when th camera is moving left and ight i wouldnt be standing there i would be like "WHOLY SHIT GET IN THE FUCKING VAN RETARDS"

[jhoon234]

thank you for puting the info

[TheNw1218]

It's pearl harbor day again!

[Waterfordmaxx]

I was at the cape when this happend... I'll never forget the shockwave!!! I was only 10 back then and my mom grabbed me and I remember people hitting the ground and the glass wall we were sitting by just moving like crazy!!!! One hell of a memmory I tell you what!!!!

[pm41224]

@Waterfordmaxx You were at Cape Canaveral, Florida at the time of the explosion of the Delta rocket that was carrying the then-new GPS R2 Sattelite?

[pm41224]

@pm41224 I mean, the then-new GPS 2R Sattellite?

[killerdaman]

how in the hell can they miss a 17' long crack? aren't they supposed to do 100 safety checks before launch?

[boxferret]

17' long crack in the boosters!!! That'll be it then...

[Kittani1977]

"We've just had an anomaly.." woman... it just turned to dust and fire in mid air... I'd say that's slightly more than just an anomaly.

[tybo09]

@Kittani1977 She was voted "Most understated" in her graduating class. We see why.

Of course, "We've had an anomaly..." sounds a lot more professional than "HOLY SHIT! DID YOU GUYS JUST SEE THAT?!?!?"

[suchy36]

ud think they would notice a 17 ft long crack in a rocket.... just sayin

[MattTheSaiyan]

This accident surprised a lot of people because Delta rockets by that point were extremely reliable. Good thing nobody was hurt.

[Racecarlock]

"The anomaly is in the shape of an explosion and quite fiery."

[specialears]

Why use composite materials to build the housing of the booster. Composites, though being made of carbon fiber and plastics and fiber glass, would seem to me to melt as the solid fuel burns upward inside the tube, is this composite materiel lined with something special, says asbestos or something that withstand the heat. As a model rocket enthusiast this has always eluded me, because Estes's rocket motors are made from dense cardboard, but are destroyed in the burn process?

[snailplasma]

my dad worked on the gps sattelite in the rocket and made a home video on the launch and it was no terrist attack it was a cracked rocket booster

[SignalPathAudio]

I want to know how they missed a 17 foot long crack...

?!?

[ithicaplasma]

I used to work on Delta II, it wasnt really a crack. The solid rocket cases are made from composite materials, carbon fiber and epoxy. The technical name is called a delamination which are areas within the case wall which did not bond correctly to the composite strains. Since it occurs within the wall it is not visable from the outer surface.

[Abzyoutbero]

im sure it was a terorist attack... the military wont tw\ell about it because they failed to secure the safetyness of a rocket

[Parrotguy1999]

And what makes you sure of that, exactly? Rockets are not exactly the safest of things.

[Abzyoutbero]

of course rockets are not safe... i just miss interpret it .. the military failed the rocket from a teroris attack...

it is impossible that the military did not see a the big crack... there was no big crack it was a bomb made by the terorist... ofcourse its classified information they wont let the public knew about this..

[smilingdog]

I saw this one blow.

[AZNPKER123]

Hmm... I Think This Is What Armmaggeddon Might Have Looked Like Except Times 500

[HLkiller2]

Stackars bilar!

[ashinms]

I love how calm that woman's voice is. "... Uh, yeah, It appears we've had an anomily..." WELL DUH!!!! At least no one was hurt. Still a waste of money, though.

[danschaoticmind]

The reason for the calmness is because they HAVE to keep a sense of professionalism. If they said "OH MY GOD IT EXPLODED" or if ANYONE stood up and began cheering upon a splashdown or launch they would be removed from that position.

In NASA you have to keep that sense of professionalism at all times

[lhtrf]

what can i say... owned by physics or something?

[TheAlexFosterBlog]

That was awesome I want more

[dvaifilmsdotcom]

no one was injured??

[cometaa12]

No, the delta rocket is an unmanned rocket.

[predatortheme]

@cometaa12

its just a Satelite rocket built to blast satelites into orbit its range only goes to space

of course it can lift up a manned spacecraft but its not built for it and they wouldnt fit together with the systems

(a car tire doesnt fit to a train) thats for sure

[Diehear]

I think he means in the area around the blast zone

[panictactics]

cometaa12 = mongoloid

[snoopyloopy]

no, precisely that's why they clear the area of all people. so no one gets injured.

[ned987]

No, because everyone is kept 1/2 of a mile away from the launch pad

[cometaa12]

It was an unmanned rocket, so no one was in it. They fly them from mission control in TX.

[danschaoticmind]

3 miles

[FSFchannel]

I find it dumb, when space shuttle shuttle launches, people are 3 miles away from the shuttle over the causway (at least i went there on the tour) and those bastards in launch control are 6 miles away in a bunker haha.

[shakenama]

The launch angle is taken into consideration with this.

All rockets and STS's at Cape Canaveral and at Kennedy are launched in a easterly direction toward the ocean away from spectators and buildings.

This is not so much because of safety reasons but because of the rotation of the earth (from a west to east direction) makes attaining the orbit much easier. :-)

[shakenama]

Yes, silly but in layman's terms it's easier to explain to the public that is was a "crack".

[Nickamsweet]

@dvaifilmsdotcom nope, plus there's a fair amount of distance from the pad to any human life that could be put in danger, plus it's fired away from land as well (not just vertically :P )

[FlamingPope]

"it was determined that a 17 foot long crack was the cause for this most devastating explosion." How could you miss that? And after the explosion from shear video footage they determine this, how could they miss that if they can see it in footage? Biggest Cluster F in NASA (Columbia wasn't a cluster)

[raikiruo]

sorry for thumbs downing you. i pressed the wrong button =(

[ashinms]

I agree with your statment, but that wasn't nasa... It was the air force.

[nicholasflamel7]

Holy Hell!

[gordongate]

if you look carefully, you can see that the no. 6 engine wasn't burning at lift off.

this was the one supposedly with the crack in it.

[Saab34O]

Uhmm smart one that particular booster was actually one of the air lit solids. It was not supposed to be burning YET.....

[GWrulez11]

Sad..yes....whos fault...NASA's... at the begining the take off the rocket was off ballanced...the rocket bent in mid air causeing the rocket's booster to bend..break...then explode.

[41218648]

incredible disaster...!

[astrorider]

first long video of this incident, very good.

[cometaa12]

Thanks