Russian spaceship fails to reach orbit

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A Russian rocket ship was carring supplies to the international space station but something went wrong and it caused a explosion and Alexander Borisov, head of a the Choisky region in Russia's Altai province said, "The explosion was so strong that for 100 kilometers (60 miles) glass almost flew out of the windows.'' the ship was carrying 2.5 tons of supplies of oxygen, food, and fuel and lasted 325 seconds at the launch.

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since the Russian rocket ship exploded the manger Mike Suffredini said “We are in a good position, and can go several months without a re-supply vehicle if necessary, due to the supplies delivered by the last shuttle flight,” but the program will be affected is still yet to be determined.

reply to post by alex1


yes,, NEXT time.. it could have been humans..!



i miss the Shuttle already...

So much for the alleged perfect record of the Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecrafts. Still what to pay them out of the wazoo to take a ride to some space hotel?*

*just employing a little reverse NASA bash, to cut into the grain so prevalent here.


One must wonder though, how many Soyuz failures there really were.

you know what they say

its usually a 20 cent part that fails

"taiwan, made in taiwan. Everything these days is made in taiwan, must use good old fashioned russian fix"
- armageddon movie

reply to post by Highlander64

People (no usernames mentioned) that make lame jokes and try to turn this into a joke should be banned on sight.

An explosion is funny,shame

Relax paper face,
Just because the sites motto is 'deny ignorance',
doesn't mean that there is no ignorance here. lol
On the contrary.... It's full of it.

Anyway..
I'm glad it wasn't a manned mission.
Jeez. O_o

It's long past time for a better space-access technology...

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It's a shame for our country
Not so long ago we lost the newest satellite and now the rocket...

And the news are still shouting how great the last avisalon (MAKS) was...