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Old July 7th 09, 07:06 AM posted to sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Default And yet more Ares woes:



OM wrote:
...I keep having this vision of the damn thing doing an EPIC FAIL like
the one from "The Astronaut Farmer", only plowing through the VAB,
then a roadsign welcoming visitors to Cocoa Beach, then winding up
impaled in the side of a Wal-Mart.


I keep picturing it heading straight for mission control, and everyone
realizing in the last moments of their lives why they had that giant
pyramid-shaped concrete blast shelter with the periscopes sticking out
of the top for Apollo, rather than a entire glass wall facing the launch
pad.

Pat