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2011-08-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

International Space Station-Bound Supply Ship Explodes

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Posted by DarthVader 2011-08-24 13:10|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 SpaceX will have their first run to the ISS using the Dragon capsule in November. I have great faith in their ability to pull it off on time and under budget.

Posted by DanNY 2011-08-24 14:11|| 2011-08-24 14:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Why the f... do the Americans not have a program that can do this?"

You can't afford a space program if your intention is to make 95% of the country eligible for food stamps (or Cal Fresh as we call it here in the beclowned state of CA). Also, in the not so recent past, NASA and the space program represented American pride, ingenuity and resolve. Can have that now, can we?

Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-08-24 14:46|| 2011-08-24 14:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Geeze. PIMF.

"not so distant"

"Can't have that"

Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-08-24 14:48|| 2011-08-24 14:48|| Front Page Top

#4 "This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-08-24 18:43|| 2011-08-24 18:43|| Front Page Top

#5 DanNY, absolutely. As sad as I am to see the shuttle go, STS turned astronauts into truck drivers, and expendable ones at that. Cargo transport, like putting satellites in orbit and resupplying ISS, doesn't have to be manned, nor should it be if it can be avoided. Save those crews (and the expense, risk, and payload) for missions that absolutely require human judgment on site. Centralized government monopolies can never match dynamic private innovation, and I can't wait to see companies like SpaceX prove it. Might remind this country what we used to be all about.

Posted by RandomJD 2011-08-24 18:53|| 2011-08-24 18:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Progress provides critical boost (thrust) for the ISS.
Discussion starts half-way down the page at this NASA SpaceX discussion blog topic: could SpaceX Dragon help?

Posted by Water Modem 2011-08-24 20:51|| 2011-08-24 20:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Photo on the pad
link

Posted by Water Modem 2011-08-24 21:20|| 2011-08-24 21:20|| Front Page Top

#8 ROSCOSMOS + MIGHTY "VOSTOK" ROCKET BOOSTERS ...

and

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > RUSSIA LOOKS TO GRAB HALF OF WORLD SPACE LAUNCH MARKET.

Your post-WOT, post-US?, OWG-NWO "Cabbie into Space", + their Robot Crews serve tasty Hopefully-NOT-Solyent-Green Star Borsch???

[FIFTH ELEMENT, BLADERUNNER'S DARYL HANNAH here].

versus

* WAFF > [Peter Foster = Beijing]CHINA "SET TO LAUNCH RIVAL INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION".

Unmanned "TIANGONG-1" SPACE NODULE = SPACELAB? to serve as initial testbed for follow-on, larger 60-ton [+/-] CHINESE SPASTA.

* SAME > US MILITARY LOOKS TO COLONIZE ALIEN WORLDS, beginning circa Years 2100-2110.

US DARPA promoting "100-YEAR STARSHIP STUDY".

D *** NGED WEIRDO FUTURE EDISON, TESLA SPACE TEENS FROM GUAM-WESTPAC + THEIR EXPERIMENTAL SPACE RODS!

[Drinking FUTURAMA "SOLYENT PURPLE" DRINK angrily].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-24 21:49|| 2011-08-24 21:49|| Front Page Top

#9 The spacecraft "Progress M-12M" separated from the carrier rocket "Soyuz-U" abnormal. On it informs RIA Novosti.
"The final stage of removing cargo spacecraft" Progress "in orbit there was an emergency situation. At present, specialists investigate the cause of the accident", - has informed agency "Interfax" a source in the aerospace industry.
The source added that the ship was launched into the target orbit.

"Нештатная ситуация примерно 340 с"
Does it mean: There is an emergency situation at 340 s?

three ISS reboosts were planned for M-12M, which now can't happen

Posted by Water Modem 2011-08-24 21:52|| 2011-08-24 21:52|| Front Page Top

#10 OTOH, US DARPA + NASA-JPL + OWG SPACE ORDER ...

versus

* TOPIX/NEWSMAX > CHINA SEES DEBT AS A WAY TO CONQUER AMERICA.

* NEWSMAX > WAR + ECONOMICS INTENSIFY NEW WORLD DISORDER.

* WORLD NEWS > GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS [Crises = plural] COULD INCREASE NUCLEAR WAR DANGER.

* TOPIX > INTENSE SOLAR ACTIVITY IN 2012 [or shortly after] WILL TRIP MOBILE PHONES, GPS.

Computer-based nationwide info, control = operating systems + grids, + around the World.

ARTIC = Next SOLAR MAXIMA in 2012 will be strongest since 1958 Event, NORTHERN LIGHTS to be seen as far south as ROME.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US EMERGING AS A "FOOD STAMP" COUNTRY. US has LOST more than gained in the GWOT?

* SAME > ISLAM TAKES HOLD IN THE LAND OF BIKINIS + CARNIVAL [aka Catholic/Christian BRAZIL].

[OWG PAULA "TRIPS TO BRAZIL" ABDUL here].

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > US IS JUST THREE YEARS [away] FROM BEING GREECE. Year 2014-2015 + Greece-style US Debt-to-GDP Ratio at or over 150%.

D *** NG IT, THIS IS AMERIKA, NOT AMERICA, WE'RE NOT TRUE PATRIOTIC COMMIE SOVIETS + OWG
"GLOBALISTS" + "SPACE/STAR-LIGHTERS" UNTIL OUR RATIO IS NEAR 500% OR BETTER LIKE THE OLD USSR!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-24 22:13|| 2011-08-24 22:13|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Water Modem 2011-08-24 22:20|| 2011-08-24 22:20|| Front Page Top

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