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NASA's Space Balloon Smashes Car In Australia 174

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 29, 2010 @10:19AM
from the wrong-turn dept.

Humunculus writes "Of more worldly issues, NASA's latest multimillion-dollar stratosphere-bound balloon launch has gone horribly wrong and crashed into a car, turning it over and narrowly missing two elderly people who were observing the launch. The payload fared worse, reportedly being smashed into a 'thousand pieces.'"

Comment: Re:want NASA to foot the bill (Score 4, Insightful) 192

by rsgeek on Monday April 12, 2010 @05:23PM (#31822824) Attached to: Companies Skeptical of Commercial Space Market

This makes sense, though, from a business perspective. NASA isn't exactly a "reliable" customer, so if they want a new capability and won't guarantee future use of it, why shouldn't NASA be the one to pay for it?

Tell you what... Go to a car dealer, tell them you want a custom model built to your exact specifications from scratch and that you won't pay a dime until it's delivered. Tell me how far you get with that...