FUBAR again: NASA Releases Failure Report On Outback Crash

In today's Slashdot:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/24/1514250/NASA-Releases-Failure-Report-On-Outback-Crash

NASA Releases Failure Report On Outback Crash

In a Friday (22-OCT-2010) news release,

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/oct/HQ_10-269_Balloon_Mishap.html

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has issued Part 1

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/pdf/491345main_Master%20Report%20Vol%20I%20-Final.pdf

and Part 2

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/pdf/491346main_Master%20Report%20Vol%20II%20-%20Final%20.pdf

of an excellent and very interesting failure review on the April 28
failed balloon launch

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=31922

of the Nuclear Compton Telescope

http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/gamma/nct.html

at Alice Springs, Australia. Bottom line: make sure you don't
need a gorilla to pull the payload release handle at balloon
launch; if the release mechanism does fail then make sure your
safety cables are sized for lift loads and a swinging payload,
not just static hanging payload weight; and oh yeah -- keep people
and vehicles out of the downwind flight path. One spectator was
nearly crushed while running from his SUV that was hit and flipped
(Figure 29, Vol I). At least nobody ordered video evidence destroyed.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7249613.html

On Oct 24, 2:08*pm, Thad Floryan wrote:

For some one who is supposed to be interested in science and
engineering ("Serving computer, electronics, IT, and research
endeavors for over 4 decades. ") you seem to hate the nations BEST
engineering and research groups. Unlike the savings and loans,
mortgage industry, wall street, pharmaceutical industry, who will
NEVER look at what went wrong and try to correct their problems, at
least NASA tries to understand what went wrong and then correct the
problems. Of course we have the clueless libertarian/conservative/
teabagger/republican (read I got mine screw you) morons in congress
who do everything possible to kill off any significant changes to
improve so they can keep their masters happy.