Progress ISS launch fails!

On 25/08/2011 4:07 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:
Today's launch of a Progress cargo ship to the ISS has failed:
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp28/110824prog44p/
The upper stage malfunctioned and the cargo ship reentered the atmosphere.
You know, if SpaceX can get that Dragon launch sped up, it would be pure
gold as far as positive publicity for them.

Pat

Even if the third stage (bloc) did fail during it's part of the launch,
the crew would still (probably) be OK, but re-enter on a sub-orbital course.

On 08/29/2011 08:46 AM, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 25/08/2011 4:07 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:
Today's launch of a Progress cargo ship to the ISS has failed:
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp28/110824prog44p/
The upper stage malfunctioned and the cargo ship reentered the
atmosphere.
You know, if SpaceX can get that Dragon launch sped up, it would be pure
gold as far as positive publicity for them.

Pat

Even if the third stage (bloc) did fail during it's part of the launch,
the crew would still (probably) be OK, but re-enter on a sub-orbital
course.

More-or-less what happened on Soyuz 18A (it even landed in the same
Altai mountain range as the Progress debris). The 21G entry was
survivable, but the landing almost killed them (the capsule landed on a
hillside and almost rolled off a cliff, but the parachute snagged on
vegetation and saved them).

On 8/29/2011 4:37 PM, Jorge R. Frank wrote:

More-or-less what happened on Soyuz 18A (it even landed in the same
Altai mountain range as the Progress debris). The 21G entry was
survivable, but the landing almost killed them (the capsule landed on a
hillside and almost rolled off a cliff, but the parachute snagged on
vegetation and saved them).

Nothing you would ever want to put a crew through even though that crew
survived.

Pat

On Aug 30, 2:53*am, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 8/29/2011 4:37 PM, Jorge R. Frank wrote:

More-or-less what happened on Soyuz 18A (it even landed in the same
Altai mountain range as the Progress debris). The 21G entry was
survivable, but the landing almost killed them (the capsule landed on a
hillside and almost rolled off a cliff, but the parachute snagged on
vegetation and saved them).

Nothing you would ever want to put a crew through even though that crew
survived.

Pat

far better outcome than challenger and columbia, imagine what they
went thru.......

and their families are still grieving......

just look at the grissom family of apollo one..

On 30/08/2011 9:02 PM, bob haller wrote:
On Aug 30, 2:53 am, Pat wrote:
On 8/29/2011 4:37 PM, Jorge R. Frank wrote:

More-or-less what happened on Soyuz 18A (it even landed in the same
Altai mountain range as the Progress debris). The 21G entry was
survivable, but the landing almost killed them (the capsule landed on a
hillside and almost rolled off a cliff, but the parachute snagged on
vegetation and saved them).

Nothing you would ever want to put a crew through even though that crew
survived.

Pat

far better outcome than challenger and columbia, imagine what they
went thru.......

and their families are still grieving......

just look at the grissom family of apollo one..

The (surviving) Grissom's are nuts. You should feel right at home.