Giant Space Balloon Launch Goes Terribly Wrong (VIDEO), page

I found this story and vid over at the Huffington Post this morning

Consider it a space balloon launch fail. Consider it a spectular lucky no one was killed, Fail...

In the Australian outback Thursday, the launch of a giant space balloon went horribly wrong when a heavy payload of scientific equipment broke off, causing it to be dragged across the ground, and ultimately slamming into a vehicle. Bystanders narrowly escaped being hit.

According to the New Zealand Herald, the balloon was part of research project by student from UC Berkeley.




[edit on 30-4-2010 by DaddyBare]

I started a thread on to this when it happened yesterday
Space balloon crashes into car in Alice


Zelong.

[edit on 30/4/10 by Zelong]

I think they needed a bigger balloon. Something like the one in this thread:

"It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Russia’s “flying saucer”
www.abovetopsecret.com...




[edit on 4/30/2010 by Larryman]

I was saying how we have such geniuses at NASA now, no wonder we scrapped some the programs.

I posted this same video 2 days ago.
Ongoing Thread

Originally posted by prionace glauca
I was saying how we have such geniuses at NASA now, no wonder we scrapped some the programs.

I posted this same video 2 days ago.
Ongoing Thread

Yea... what planet do you think the Constellation mission to Mars would have landed on?

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