Rocket Launch Failures Compilation

This is interesting but I do object to the showing of the Challenger disaster of 1986. Human lives were lost as oppose that none were lost during these other incidents. My opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McbCwSW2moo

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I believe the Long March failure killed quite a few civilians.

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I did not know about that one, I'll have to look it up.

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Here you go:

http://www.military.com/video/rocke.../1183786788001/


They had two launches with civilian casulties.

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I was in HS Geometry class during the 1986 Challenger disaster.
This was the moment in my life that I will remember exact place/time like many growing up in the 60's remember this for the JFK asassaination.
We watched it live in class.
Sent chills down my spine when it happened and goose bumps on my arms.
Still does that today every time I happen to view it when it explodes even though I know it is going to be on the footage.

The 9/11/01 terror attacks come close to doing the same as well.
I remember I was at the GM Flint Cadillac Tech Center when that happened.
Saw the second aircraft hit the 2nd tower live....chilling as well.

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Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !

I skipped school that day to work in the field... We had some beautiful weather and it was JUST starting to warm up after the cold front that doomed Challenger had moved through and on eastwards a day or two before... it was sunny and a little cool-- not a cloud in the sky. I was running a hipper in the fields to pull the rows up and break the crust, get the soil loosened up and dried out a bit for preplant field work (fertilizer application and pre-emerge herbicide disk-down).

Sometime between 11:30 and noon, Dad came down in the pickup so we could go to Grandma's for lunch. He was working nights, but he often got up around noon to eat with us, then go back to bed until about 3-4 when he'd get ready and leave for work. I shut down the tractor on the turnrow and jumped in, and we headed up the road to the other end of the farm where my grandmother lived. He told me, "the shuttle exploded-- it's all over the TV" and I thought to myself "that can't be right... he probably saw the boosters separate and thought it blew up" but as soon as I came in the house, I found out it was true... We watched the non-stop coverage as we ate lunch, and I popped a tape in my new-fangled VCR just before I left the house, and left it recording the coverage on slow speed so the tape would last all day. Dad took me back to the field and I got back to work... Still remember exactly where in the field I was at...

Very sad.

On 9/11, my new bride and I had just celebrated our first anniversary 9 days before. It was my Dad's birthday. I woke up late (as I was still row-crop farming at the time and the crops were harvested, so I didn't have to get up early) and flipped on the TV just before the plane hit the second tower. After a bit, I called Betty at work and we talked a bit, and wondering if this was the opening salvo of WWIII, I went and got some emergency cash out of the bank. Then my folks and I went to lunch at the Chinese buffet... figured if it WAS the beginning of WWIII, I at least wanted a good "last meal" (so to speak). Little did I know the events of that day would drag on and devolve into the mess we have now...

Yep, like JFK, those are the days we'll remember where we were and what we were doing for the rest of our lives...

Later! OL JR

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When 9/11/01 happened, it was about a month before the day I got married on 10/11/01.
My father was working his shift in the Air Traffic Control tower when it happened.
All my close relatives tried talking my bride & I into delaying our honeymoon at Sandals in the Bahamas in order to avoid air travel.
We told them all that there was NO WAY we were going to let some POS DIRTBAGS ruin our plans and good time. We had a great time, but procedures in US airports were still developing, and what we had to follow on our departure date was different from what we had to follow on our return 10 days later.

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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!!

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !

Yeah, I bet...

Last time I flew was out of Newark to Orlando with my girlfriend and her family to ratworld... This was around February of 99 IIRC... I remember looking out my window-- foggy over Manhattan but I could see the twin towers sticking up distinctly above the other buildings and ground fog...

I remembered looking at them as long as I could see them and something just told me "take a long, good look-- those things aren't going to be there in a few years..." I can't explain it, but the feeling sure made the hair on the back of my neck stand up...

My then-girlfriend offered to take me into New York, but honestly I've never lost anything in New York and don't care to... About the only thing I'd have halfway wanted to see was the Intrepid and the Statue of Liberty, but I didn't want to "put up with" New York to see them...

Newark was bad enough... thank goodness my then-girlfriend was from "out in the sticks" in NW New Jersey... that was STILL "too crowded" for my tastes...

Later! OL JR

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NYC is one of few major US Cities I have not been to.
I have absolutely ZERO desire to see NYC for any reason whatsoever.
WAYYYYY too crowded.
Something is just plain WRONG when it costs more than an average mortgage payment just for parking space rent.
The only thing I figure I'm missing bu not visiting NYC is the fine albeit overpriced dining.
I have NO fondness whatsoever for live theatre at any price. To me, that CRAP just plain sucks.


The ONE city where crowds don't bother me is Las Vegas as I'm an avid successful poker player.
Tons of horrible tourist players just waiting to be fleeced.

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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!!

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !

Casino poker is fine but they need to legalize internet poker. Let the government take their cut and get on with it. What's the harm with allowing people to stay at home on a Friday night and play a little poker? I'm good enough that I made a few bucks too before they yanked it.

End rant ... sorry for the highjack.