- Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:32 am
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NASA chief Charles Bolden's remarks.Results:
"When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things," "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contributions."
SpaceX launch ends in failure, rocket erupts. The $20 Billion SpaceX space rocket carrying supplies and the first-of-its-kind docking port to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to NASA, still reeling from several other previous failed shipments. This is the second failed station shipment in a row and the third in eight monthsObama destroys every agency he puts one of his cronies in charge of; it's not by mistake.
The accident occurred about 2 1/2 minutes into the flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Pieces could be seen falling into the Atlantic. More than 5,200 pounds of space station cargo were on board, including the first docking port designed for future commercial crew capsules.
"The vehicle has broken up," announced NASA commentator George Diller. He said it was not clear how the disaster occurred or even when the rocket actually failed. Data stopped flowing from the Falcon 9 rocket around 2 minutes and 19 seconds, he said.
SpaceX — led by billionaire Elon Musk, who also heads up electric car maker Tesla — is one of two companies hired by NASA to deliver shipments to the space station since NASA no longer has the capabilities.
