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Old 08-25-08, 01:30 PM   #1
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Default NASA has another rocket failure

http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_NASA_...ure_22830.html

Not good.

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NASA announced that the launch controllers had destroyed the ATK ALV X-1 suborbital rocket, because it failed to follow its planned path.
ATK ALV X-1 suborbital rocket, carrying two NASA hypersonic experiments, was launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Friday morning at 5:12 a.m....
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Old 08-25-08, 01:38 PM   #2
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Saw this one in the paper at work last night. What a waste
They said NASA refused to divulge the cost of the rocket itself, only saying that the launch cost 47 million.


Thanks for the link, it had a lot more info than the paper article.
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