Sunday’s launch of an unmanned cargo ship toward the International Space Station ended about two-minutes in, when the Falcon 9 rocket that was conducting the liftoff exploded, leading the manufacturer SpaceX to announce it is postponing its next launch.
The Falcon 9 had some successes in the past, but is still comparatively new, and has become effectively the lone supplier of Pentagon rockets after last year’s Congressional ban on awarding contracts to ULA, which uses Russian-made engines.
The Pentagon is hoping Congress is going to re-explore that ban now, saying they’d very much like to have two independent sources of rockets, something which would clearly be nice when the other source has a problem with rockets blowing up.
Sen. John McCain (R – AZ), however, is adamant he will block any such efforts to reverse the ban, insisting rockets bought from Russia would mean taxpayer money going straight to Russian President Vladimir Putin. That the Russian rockets aren’t blowing up, however, is likely to keep the Pentagon wanting to acquire them.
McInsane is clearly in Alice in Wonderland. Can't some medic get him mentally analysed?
The fact that the neocon propaganda machine is going to such lengths to help their boy Putin just shows how deeply he's in trouble. Their attempts to undermine the ban will thus probably be counterproductive.
Still living in a fantasy world I see. Your theory that the neo-cons are secretly in league with Vladimir Putin is beyond the twilight zone.
Maybe we should put McCrazy (and his pet South Carolinian to keep him company) on one of SPACEX's rockets and see how quickly he changes his tune.
Elon Musk,the Zionist,is living and profiting on the backs of the American people,as we privatize the space race,and NASA falls by the wayside.How many blowups have they had already?What a fiasco and theft of America by the Zionist scum.
McCain is never one to let common sense get in the way of jingoism, war mongering, protectionism, or flat out stupidity.
Protectionism?
Why did he vote to fast-trak TPP?