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Not a good week
I know I said I'm done but then today I was discussing rockets with my boss and we started talking about space travel and he couldn't remember how Virgin Galactic flight was to work so he googled it and the first thing we saw was the news. It was BBC article about the crash - it was published just 37 minutes before. Out of all the things we could've talked about...
But of course it wasn't completely accidental. We got there because we started talking about Anteres explosion. And then we got to other ways of going to space (or at least somewhere close to it) and then we saw what happened. This is not a good week to try to go to space.
At least Antares rocket was deliberately destroyed after it became apparent there was a problem to make sure it won't fall on populated area and no one was hurt. Tragically, in the SpaceShipTwo crash one of the pilots died and the other is injured.
It makes one rethink the wisdom of a contest that promises to take you on suborbital flight for a cinema ticket and remember how brave the people who go to space are. This is still a very dangerous job. (But I still want to go)
But of course it wasn't completely accidental. We got there because we started talking about Anteres explosion. And then we got to other ways of going to space (or at least somewhere close to it) and then we saw what happened. This is not a good week to try to go to space.
At least Antares rocket was deliberately destroyed after it became apparent there was a problem to make sure it won't fall on populated area and no one was hurt. Tragically, in the SpaceShipTwo crash one of the pilots died and the other is injured.
It makes one rethink the wisdom of a contest that promises to take you on suborbital flight for a cinema ticket and remember how brave the people who go to space are. This is still a very dangerous job. (But I still want to go)