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Antares rocket explodes on liftoff

Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 5 months ago to Technology

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Posted by Mimi 9 years, 5 months ago

Thee should have been more caution expressed over the forty-year russian engines after the May incident in Mississippi.

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Posted by Abaco 9 years, 5 months ago

I was offered a position at Aerojet many years ago on a program that revolved around those Russian engines. I walked right up to some of them in their racks and looked them over.

Science and engineering is dying on the vine in America. This is just another example.

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  Posted by Mimi 9 years, 5 months ago
  
  Yeah, but forty years is a good run. Those engines were beautiful.
  It reminds me how people acted after the Concorde crashed. All the sudden it was the faulty ‘french this’ and the misaligned ‘french that’.
  The Concorde was definitely a thing of power and beauty. It’s just that age gets us all.
  
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Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 5 months ago

New meaning to rockets red glare... :( Mimi is correct. Why on earth are we using aged surplus Russian engines?

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  Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 5 months ago
  
  So they don't end up in the hands of American patriots?
  
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    Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 5 months ago
    
    Food for thought. The Russians were not without their launch failures also. I wonder how the American made engines would compare if we were granted reliable stats from both nations and all manufacturers. I also wonder how the liabilities and regulation of this nation impact manufacture.
    
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