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NASA Science Balloon Crashes

Started by lintonius, 04/29/2010 04:32PM
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Linton Rohr
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Bad news from Australia...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100429/sc_space/hugenasascienceballooncrashesinaustralianoutback

Watch the video, too.
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Not good. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
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Sad. It looks like it could have been easily prevented by either waiting until the winds were calm, or launching off a tower where the instrument package would not have been dragged along the ground. What were those knuckleheads thinking!?
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