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A Russian Space Station Supply Ship crashed into Siberia just minutes after launch. The Rocket took off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7AM BST on the 25th of August 2011. Soyuz rocket booster carrying the Progress supply ship soared right on time from Kazakhstan, and everything seemed to be going perfectly until just over five minutes into the flight. The third stage of the rocket ignited, but the rockets on board computer's commanded the engines to shut down down due to an unknown problem on board we are told from Nasa's space station program manager, Mike Suffredini.

All contact with the spacecraft was lost. Russian space officials declared it a total failure after reports of wreckage falling with a deafening roar in a remote area of Siberia. "The explosion was so strong that for 100 kilometers (60 miles) glass almost flew out of the windows," Alexander Borisov, head of the Choisky region in Russia's Altai province, was quoted by state news agency RIA Novosti as saying.

This is sparking concerns over Nasa shutting down the Shuttle Program as they US are now depending on Europe, Japan and Russia to move astronauts back and forward from the International Space Station until the US Privet Industry is capable to do it. Do you think Nasa are putting a lot at stake abandoning the Shuttle program and taking such risks as this disaster? We are lucky their were no astronauts on board the rocket as three of the six crew members of the International Space Station are to return home in a mere two weeks times. This disaster has caused a lot of concern and it is now doubtful that the crew from the International Space Station will return home as scheduled.

Thought you said welfare at first. Was like THANK YOU. Poor people want my money just because I have it and they don't. But still, thank you! Agree with your statement too.

:p

No. I think any country has the right to go to space. NASA has had accidents as well, including deaths. That's all this was, an accident (as of now, anyway). They have lost shuttles with a whole crew on board, more than once, I think. Luckily no one was on board. It will take time to get into the swing of 'running', for lack of better words, the space program, like NASA seemed to have done.

I think we can learn a lot from space about our planet and the universe and think abandoning it is stupid. Science helps people. Space things can help people. Say a meteor crashed an contained things that could actually heal people. Not unlikely, we don't know what's in space. Being in space could lead to first contact with aliens. Being in space helps us understand how we got here, what's happening around us, is something coming to crash into Earth? Where and so on. It's more that just a trip to space, it's helping us from being squashed from a meteor.

I want to be a spaceman when I grow up.

Probably a woman flying it :dumb:

And the score for space dominance is

Usa 1000 russia 0

Looks like they wont be landing on the moon any time soon

oh my god, that must feel bad, all that gone to waste!

In russia, plane crash instead of fly kay:

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I'm just sayin'