Stratospheric balloon failure

The footage comes from a failed balloon launch at NASA's base in Palestine (TX). It occured on October 19, 1977.

The balloon was near to launch a Compton telescope made by a scientific team from Germany, when a tear developed on top of the balloon just before the launch vehicle picked up the payload.

The colapsed balloon falls on the launch pad in a "water fall" fashion. Really amazing to see.

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• balloon
• launch
• failure
• stratospheric
• Compton
• telescope
• MPE
• Germany
• Palestine
• NSBF
• NASA

[RasputinaMan]

it fails so elegantly...

[speedy856]

and thats why god now has std's...

[Standown129]

I bet that cost us a lot of money...

[taito79]

@stocadendo have you considered downloading it for free?

[stocadendo]

I would like buy this video, do you know how is it possible?

it's very important for me!

thank you very very much

[J88Wolf]

Truly a most beautiful fail indeed.

[Postie218]

stop by the dry cleaners and get some more plastic.

[rustychili]

this started global warming

[gosugenji]

Made in china.

[VohnExel]

ALIENS!

[ardvarkkkkk]

Should have used a Hefty. Got the Wimpy model instead.

[KragJin]

faill but looks amazing ;d