Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 221 66.0%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.2%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 73 21.8%
  • Total voters
    335
#4,813
#4,813
Three and a half minutes into flight probably had some pretty good altitude going. Does anyone know how far up and down range it got before the RUD?
 
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Apparently something went wrong right before staging. That's actually pretty impressive.

ETA: 24 miles at time of RUD and the staging didn't happen as expected.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Three and a half minutes into flight probably had some pretty good altitude going. Does anyone know how far up and down range it got before the RUD?
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It made it all the way to just prior to first stage separation. Something went wrong as it began it's rotation maneuver prior to separation.
 
#4,821
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hog88 said:
I wonder how much this cost them?
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Are you talking about losing the rocket? Neither part of this test vehicle was scheduled for recovery. If everything went 💯 the booster was to do a partial boost back & landing maneuver into the Gulf of Mexico where it would sink and stage one if it survived reentry was scheduled to land (sink) in the Pacific near Hawaii.

I think internally SpaceX was just hoping for a successful launch and not a "RUD" on the pad that could have set back Test #2 months had it damaged the launch pad/tower.
 
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