HoloLens Headsets Destroyed in SpaceX Rocket Explosion

[Gatlank]

The Soviets taught us all those lessons the hard way, with hundreds of their own people burned to ash.

[citation needed]

I would put it on a handful or maybe dozens (if including animals).
"Hundreds" unlikely.

Well, get ready to be very surprised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe

That's one example in which over 100 died in a single event. I will point out that while asking for citations is a good thing, in this case you could very easily have verified the numbers on your own.

Might as well throw some V2 rockets numbers there too.
That was a ballistic missile test which has much relation to a space program as football (soccer) is related to american football.
While ballistic missiles have a commonality in development with space rockets they have different testing and uses. If not NASA would be better served by slapping together some Tridents and calling it a day.
So yes your "hundreds" still needs a citation unless of course this article was talking about the use of the rocket for military purposes.

 

[Gatlank]

If I had said, "Manned space program" or "Scientific Space program" you would not be making a purely semantic argument.

I also fail to see where is mentioned in the link you provided that that rocket was related to a space program of any kind.
All pointed out to a military testing supervised by a military branch where the only thing space related was that was performed in a testing range (for military use) in the Baikonur cosmodrome.

 

[Smooth Operator]

So the first commercial flight and they already fill it up with Microsofts latest product placement... ah the future of space flight. I wonder how long before someone starts renting moon space for ads, excellent global marketing with that one.

 

[Gatlank]

If I had said, "Manned space program" or "Scientific Space program" you would not be making a purely semantic argument.

I also fail to see where is mentioned in the link you provided that that rocket was related to a space program of any kind.
All pointed out to a military testing supervised by a military branch where the only thing space related was that was performed in a testing range (for military use) in the Baikonur cosmodrome.

Military space programs are still space programs, however much you want to deny it. As to how it is related to a space programs, how was an ICBM related to LEO? I can't imagine. :|

ICBM's are different from space rockets even if similar in development. The objective of a space rocket is to reach and fulfill it's purpose in space, a ICBM not so much, reaching space it's not their main objective and their job is practically completed after launch.
If you want to tally the (fringe) death count of a military rocket in a (not even related) space program you better start counting the death toll of the V2 since it has stronger ties with the american space program than the R-16 has with the soviet.

Besides you insist that the Nedelin cathastrophe is related to a space program, yet everything i read in the link you provided says otherwise, even the links used to write that article.

 

[Gatlank]

I guess we're done, thanks.

Thanks. Lesson to take from this an ICBM doesnt a space rocket make.

 

[Lightknight]

Anyone else think the Russians did it?

Let me point you to this point in the article.

Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut are currently aboard ISS.

Cosmonauts are an extremely valuable national asset. There is no way Russia would profit from endangering two of them with only 4 months of supplies remaining.

Which has a higher value as a national asset: Cosmonauts or a successful and well respected space shuttling program that brings in hundreds of millions of dollars each year as along as SpaceX doesn't take those contracts from them?

What's more is that I missed the factoid that now that SpaceX has failed that all the astronauts and cosmonauts are going to die. I assume that would have made more news so I'm guessing that isn't the case.

So you'd be looking at discrediting a competitor at no cost to themselves.

The motivation is certainly there. Especially seeing as SpaceX had no failures until shortly after Russia failed and their organization's flaws were exposed that one of SpaceX's rockets failed.

So is it possible that the Russians did it? Sure. They have motivation and means.

Is it likely? Probably not.

 

[Alar]

Damn, SpaceX has been losing a lot of stuff lately, haven't they? This saddens me, as the future of space travel is the gateway to humanity's future survival.

 

[StorkV]

Russians got this don't worry.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

So the first commercial flight and they already fill it up with Microsofts latest product placement... ah the future of space flight. I wonder how long before someone starts renting moon space for ads, excellent global marketing with that one.

If all the supplies were commercially gathered I wouldn't be suprised if the "two tonnes of food supplies" was just piles of Doritos, Mountain Dew and Red Bull.