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Now this is a lesson in putting a positive spin on a complete disaster. Apparently their rocket did not explode. What actually happened was that it suffered a rapid disassembly. Gotta love the Americans
It successfully exploded thereby proving that installing a barbecue next to the crew's oxygen tanks was a bad idea. Designers were delighted to discover this.
'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'
The rocket was never intended to go very far,just to see if it actually cleared the launch pad.Ground staff were surprised it went as high as it did. Standard flight profile for development like all those rockets NASA launched in the 60's. Absolutely not a disaster but then the biased press would pick up on that wouldn't they?
I believe the explosion was also the rocket's computers destroying itself as it had started to spin out of control, so it didn't tumble back to earth completely uncontrollably to hit the ground in one piece.
Not really the case, this was a hugely experimental vehicle. Normal rockets are pretty routine now at getting things into orbit - the JUICE mission went without a hitch from French Guyana just last week.
I listened to some 'experts' on the radio, prior and during the launch. They were disappointed but like a previous poster mentioned, not disheartened. The main objective was lift off, which was achieved, anything after that was a bonus. Apparently, in unadjusted money, it was about 19 billion cheaper than the 1960's launches, so we'll see a few more efforts in the near future.
You test these things to destruction,iron out most of the kinks before you let a crew anywhere near the vehicle.NASA should have doing this programme fifty years ago but they ran out of funds and the public lost interest in Moon landings with the Vietnam War and all.Like someone graphically put it...it was like a dog chasing a car,we caught up with the Moon,pissed on it and wandered away.
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