RedskinRat
08-24-2011, 11:51 AM
A Russia supply spaceship sent to the International Space Station has failed to reach its destination, it has been announced.
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029666/Russian-supply-ship-sent-International-Space-Station-fails-reach-destination.html#ixzz1VxhWizI5)
The Progress M-12 M cargo ship, which was unmanned, was launched from the Baikonur Space Centre in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
It should have reached a near-Earth orbit around nine minutes after the launch but never arrived. It is unclear if it has been lost.
The ship was carrying more than 2.5 tons of supplies, including oxygen, food and fuel.
Great call on ending the NASA space progame, BHO!
firstdown
08-24-2011, 12:07 PM
How come I have the feeling this going to cost us money?
Alvin Walton
08-24-2011, 12:28 PM
In space....no one can hear you run out of food.
RedskinRat
08-24-2011, 01:06 PM
I'm biased, I work for the group that baits aliens with satellites up in Mojave.
Alvin Walton
08-24-2011, 01:43 PM
I'm biased, I work for the group that baits aliens with satellites up in Mojave.
Do you know Jodi Foster?
RedskinRat
08-24-2011, 01:46 PM
Do you know Jodi Foster?
That bitch touched my antenna!
Goldstone (http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/index.html)
RedskinRat
08-24-2011, 02:57 PM
Update: Bang! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44257065/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/russian-space-ship-fails-reach-orbit/?gt1=43001)
An unmanned Russian supply ship bound for the International Space Station failed to reach its planned orbit Wednesday, and pieces of it fell in Siberia amid a thunderous explosion, officials said.
firstdown
08-24-2011, 03:34 PM
Speaking of Big Bang Theroy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOan_0acqE8
mmmmm
Monkeydad
08-29-2011, 12:35 PM
Too bad for them that we can no longer send a rescue shuttle up.
saden1
08-29-2011, 01:24 PM
A Russia supply spaceship sent to the International Space Station has failed to reach its destination, it has been announced.
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029666/Russian-supply-ship-sent-International-Space-Station-fails-reach-destination.html#ixzz1VxhWizI5)
The Progress M-12 M cargo ship, which was unmanned, was launched from the Baikonur Space Centre in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
It should have reached a near-Earth orbit around nine minutes after the launch but never arrived. It is unclear if it has been lost.
The ship was carrying more than 2.5 tons of supplies, including oxygen, food and fuel.
Great call on ending the NASA space progame, BHO!
That's a bit of over simplification isn't it? I thought it was an aging faulty fleet without a timely and funded replacement program was what doomed our ability to get people to space. The real issue here is money...no money, no shuttle. I mean, you have the house reducing the funding requested by Obama for 2012 by 2 billion as part of their austerity measure. It's kinda sad that we don't have a reusable space ferry.
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