|
April 21st, 2019 | #1 | |
fluxmaster
|
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Capsule Destroyed In Engine Test
NASA Administrator Statement on SpaceX Static Fire Test
Quote:
So far very little information on what happened.
__________________
All these ideas…are chained to the existence of men, to who[m]…they owe their existence. Precisely in this case the preservation of these definite races and men is the precondition for the existence of these ideas. --Adolf Hitler |
|
April 21st, 2019 | #2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 15,248
|
Instead of liquid-fueled Super Dracos, maybe SpaceX should have gone with what works, the old solid-fueled launch abort towers used on Mercury, Apollo and Soyuz to pull the capsule away from a malfunctioning booster rocket which are jettisoned when they aren't needed after a certain point in a launch. Perhaps SpaceX engineers felt that would be a step backward. Either way, this is not going to inspire a lot of confidence in SpaceX's designs and Elon Musk himself after past failures with his Falcon rockets. But this is why tests are done, and they will find out eventually what went wrong and fix it. So meanwhile, u.s. astronauts will have to keep riding in Russia's Soyuz vehicles to get into space. After all the anti-Russian hysteria and economic sanctions on the KWA's part in recent years, I wouldn't blame the Russians if they told NASA to go take a flying fuck.
__________________
"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." --Henry A. Kissinger, jewish politician and advisor |
Share |
Thread | |
Display Modes | |
|