Russia Loses Contact With Robot Spaceship After Launch

[YosemiteSam]

....and the US cancelled the Shuttle program with the intentions of hitching rides into Space on Russian space crafts?!?!?! Yikes!

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An unmanned Russian cargo ship carrying tons of supplies for astronauts on the International Space Station suffered a major malfunction after launching today (Aug. 24) and failed to reach its intended orbit, NASA says.

The robotic Progress 44 cargo ship blasted off at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) from the central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and was due to arrive at the space station on Friday. But something went wrong at the 5-minute, 20-second mark, causing an "off-nominal situation," NASA officials said.

It is the second launch failure within a week for Russia's space program.

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[CowboyMcCoy]

Yikes.

 

[Yeagermeister]

First it was the Red October now rocket ships :laugh2:

 

[TheCount]

Lost contact my buttocks, they sent it to the dark side of the moon.

 

[DallasEast]

....and the US cancelled the Shuttle program with the intentions of hitching rides into Space on Russian space crafts?!?!?! Yikes!

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An unmanned Russian cargo ship carrying tons of supplies for astronauts on the International Space Station suffered a major malfunction after launching today (Aug. 24) and failed to reach its intended orbit, NASA says.

The robotic Progress 44 cargo ship blasted off at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) from the central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and was due to arrive at the space station on Friday. But something went wrong at the 5-minute, 20-second mark, causing an "off-nominal situation," NASA officials said.

It is the second launch failure within a week for Russia's space program.

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Dasvidania!

 

[DallasEast]

First it was the Red October now rocket ships :laugh2:

I wish they had the chance to see Montana...

:laugh1:

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Lost contact my buttocks, they sent it to the dark side of the moon.

That's not a moon!!!

 

[joseephuss]

....and the US cancelled the Shuttle program with the intentions of hitching rides into Space on Russian space crafts?!?!?! Yikes!

That sounds a little misleading. The U.S. did cancel the shuttle program, but it wasn't because they intended to hitch rides with the Russians.

 

[Doomsday101]

MOSCOW – An unmanned Russian supply ship bound for the International Space Station failed to reach its planned orbit Wednesday, and pieces of it fell in Siberia amid a thunderous explosion, officials said.

A brief statement from Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, did not specify whether the Progress supply ship that was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan had been lost. But the state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Alexander Borisov, head of a the Choisky region in Russia's Altai province, as saying pieces of the craft fell in his area some 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) northeast of the launch site.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/24/russian-space-ship-fails-to-reach-orbit/#ixzz1Vy5tC4Ka

 

[big dog cowboy]

:blind:

 

[YosemiteSam]

That sounds a little misleading. The U.S. did cancel the shuttle program, but it wasn't because they intended to hitch rides with the Russians.

They cancelled it because the crafts are aging and expensive. Their plan is to hitch rides with the Russians as an alternate way to get Americans into space.

 

[Doomsday101]

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This is how we fix problem in Russia

You bunch of Cowboys

 

[Doomsday101]

They cancelled it because the crafts are aging and expensive. Their plan is to hitch rides with the Russians as an alternate way to get Americans into space.

and back home since there are American in the space station right now

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

That's interesting. I just put a bid in on EBay for a case of Vodka with "Roscosmos" on the label. Humm............

 

[Dallas]

It's not a big deal. They found it on Earth's OTHER moon.



Dang ruskies can't even clear the atmosphere now. Things are BAAAD at the Krem.

 

[zrinkill]

Earthquacks all over the place ....... Spaceships disappearing .....


**** is fixin to go down!

 

[Doomsday101]

Earthquacks all over the place ....... Spaceships disappearing .....


**** is fixin to go down!

2012 Baby :laugh2:

 

[casmith07]

In Mother Russia, spaceship lose contact with you.

 

[zrinkill]

 

[trickblue]

Probably planned... likely something they are working on...