[Tanada]

Congress is made up of Lawyers. A lawyers main goal in life is to keep their client from doing anything actionable, which makes actually accomplishing anything useful nearly impossible.

[dissident]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... By3MbP4WDo

Words of "wisdom" from the chair of the Congressional science and technology committee.

The biggest threat to Americans are their own politicians.

[dissident]

http://spacenews.com/orbital-sciences-o ... es-rocket/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')atellite and rocket builder Orbital Sciences Corp. on Dec. 16 confirmed that it has contracted with Russia’s Energomash to provide RD-181 engines to power the first stage of Orbital’s Antares rocket, replacing the AJ-26 engine, also from Russia, that Orbital suspects was the origin of Antares’ Oct. 28 failure.

[Keith_McClary]

xkcd

[Subjectivist]

Preliminary findings have shown that material was left in the Ukraine built fuel tanks and sucked into the engines causing one engine to fail. Very long artical at link below.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz said NASA was conducting its own internal "lessons learned" review of the accident, but declined to give any details about individual aspects of the investigation.

She agreed with Orbital that foreign object debris was always considered as a possible cause in aerospace accidents.

If the investigations confirm that debris from the fuel tanks caused the Antares explosion, that could have significant financial and legal effects for Orbital ATK, which was formed by the merger of Orbital Sciences Corp and Alliant Techsystems.

The new findings could also open the door for a legal claim against Orbital by GenCorp, which took a $17.5 million loss in October, after Orbital said the accident had prompted it to accelerate plans to switch to a different engine.