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Fifth Column

Soyuz to ISS carrying a US and Russian Astronaut has 2nd Stage Blow Up!

2018-10-11

NASA ISS status briefing has ended. Key points:

• Crew is safe
• Anomaly detected with Stage 2 aka Center Core Booster
• Current Station crew planned to be on orbit until December
• NASA evaluating options for completing upcoming spacewalks now that Hague is still on Earth
— Thomas Burghardt (@TGMetsFan98) October 11, 2018

Folks, I am too pro-Spacex so filter my rage against NASA Shelby and Company as you please.

Today Soyuz with a US and Russian astronaut blew the hell up this AM AND NASA pushed SpaceX's manned capsule, already at the cape back 9 months, for NASA paperwork reasons.

Like the SOBs would rather launch astronauts on exploding USSR crap than use the SpaceX or Boeing capsules!

I even heard the argument that SpaceX has only done a few launches. It's done 68 flights and will pass the Atlas 5 (Lockheed/ULA) total count this year. It's a tested rocket and one with a first stage brought home safely 30 time to inspect and sometimes reuse. Nobody else on the planet has that knowledge of their first stages.
SpaceX Statistics if you don't believe me here

Oh and the fricking air-force just gave development contracts to ULA, ATK and Blue Origin totally ignoring SpaceX (cheap and works).
The whole Space Part of the US government including Sen Shelby needs an enema!

Posted by:3dc

#5 Damned picture hangers!

Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-11 18:29

#4 They've been arguing for thirty years about the need to make the US dependent on Russia even while Russia becomes more and more incapable of having a working space program but they'll tell you Trump is guilty of collusion.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-10-11 17:23

#3 Shut down NASA. Privatize it all.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-10-11 16:36

#2 Bit off topic; I let out loud a 'whadda bunch of goddamn bullshit' during one of the BOS @ NYY games when they were showing screenshots of the Enterprise.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-10-11 16:06

#1 This is the same situation we faced when the damned Shuttle was taken out of the picture. So again we are stuck on depending on the Russians and their tired iron. That needs to change after decades of BS the federal govt sitting on its hands.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-10-11 15:57

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