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Old 08-24-2011, 01:49 PM   #1
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Default Russian Progress space freighter lost

Shuttle retires.

US uses Progress as a freighter to send up supplies paying Russians for the privledge.

First one after Shuttle retires blows up.

Maybe the Russians want some more money.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14653371

Russian Progress space freighter lost

By Jonathan Amos

The Russian space agency said the Progress M-12M cargo ship was not placed in the correct orbit by its rocket and fell back to Earth.
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Old 08-24-2011, 02:15 PM   #2
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Last week their intelligence satellite blew after launch and the week before that the US hyper plane blew up and now the ISS supply rocket disintegrated.
Yesterday a EQ right under a nuke plant and a few days before that NASA said the aliens are getting upset about what we doing on earth.

2 bad they don't make tin foil anymore, seems aluminum foil is not working
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Old 08-24-2011, 02:44 PM   #3
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We need a private sector alternative ASAP.
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Old 08-24-2011, 03:27 PM   #4
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SpaceX says it will launch unmanned cargo vessel to space station in November

http://blog.al.com/space-news/2011/0...aunch_unm.html
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Old 08-30-2011, 05:42 PM   #5
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http://www.tgdaily.com/space-feature...ighter-failure

Russia identifies cause of space freighter failure
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