Apparently, Russia isn’t the only country that can pitch multi-million dollar satellites into the ocean. NASA’s Glory satellite launch fails A rocket, standing more than nine stories tall, blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base but failed to lift a NASA Earth-observation satellite into orbit and plummeted into the Pacific Ocean. The failed mission cost [...]
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