Unsuccessful shuttle launch
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Only one engine fired and the shuttle did not lift off....
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Houston we have a problem
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This is really scary. My brother was killed the exact same way.
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lol😅
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talk about pissing your money away m
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Ha ha ha! That brings back memories. When I was a teenager, I was into building model rockets that used solid fuel motors. I single handedly constructed this monster three stage rocket that took months of work. It was painted a deep sapphire blue color with high visibility yellow stripes on its fuselages and fins. The third stage payload was actually a miniature still camera that, after the recovery chute deployed and tugged on the cord attaching it to the fuselage, was supposed to snap a photo of me on ground thousands of feet below looking up. Like you, I took the rocket to a large field and had an assistant standing near it who would ignite the first stage booster rocket motor with a nichrome wire that was pushed up into the motor and whose ends were connected to a ten foot long electrical line going to an ignition switch he held and a pack of batteries. I then backed off several tens of feet with an Instamatic camera so I could, hopefully, capture an image of this beauty blasting off into the sky and then continue to snap photos of it on its way up. I estimated the top altitude to be about 3,000 feet or so and the blast that ejected the parachute was supposed to release a cloud smoke to help me locate the third stage up in a bright sky.
I did the obligatory sci-fi film countdown to zero and my assistant upon hearing "zero" pressed the red launch button. Gases started to shoot out of the bottom of the first stage and the rocket started to slide up along its steel guide rod and pick up speed. Then suddenly I realized that it seemed to be going too slow and, at a height of only 6 feet, the first and second stages separated and the remaining two stages rose another few feet. The second and thirds stages then separated and the final third stage maybe reached an altitude of 12 feet before the parachute deployed along with a cloud of black smoke and the whole thing crashed to the ground. Needless to say, I was dumbfounded and contacted the supplier who had sold me the solid fuel rocket engines I was using in my model rockets (I don't recommend anybody try formulating their own solid fuels. I had a friend that did that and the rocket he made using his home brew gun powder exploded on its launch pad like a hand grenade!). They refused to believe there was anything wrong with them and suggested it was all my fault because I had fastened the stages together so tightly that the fuel was almost used up in each motor before enough pressure built up to separate the stages. I, of course, did not accept that and, to this day, I am convinced they either sent me the wrong motors for my rocket or they sent the right ones, but they were defective for some reason. I collected the stages and later used the complete rocket as a conversation piece. I never tried to fly it again.
I did, however, have much better luck with single stage rockets and even designed a space plane that would take off vertically like a rocket, but then, instead of ejecting a parachute, used the recovery charge to push the entire burned out rocket motor backward in the fuselage so as the change the location of the center of gravity of the craft and also change the angles of large flaps on its two oversized wings. When that happened, the rocket turned into a glider that then spiraled back down to Earth without any damage. It was actually an early Space Shuttle of a sort which, although I had designed it entirely on paper, worked perfectly the very first time it flew. In rocketry, one must be thankful for his successes and try not to overly dwell on his many failures.
But, the important thing was that I was having fun and feeling like I was getting ready to become an astronaut some day. -
so this is what nasa has become thanks to budget cuts
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0:28 When you set your staging wrong in KSP
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odin,dva,tri,chetire xD
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FAIL
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holyshit is funny
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ajajajajaj!!!
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Did you remember to release the parking brake?
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