A government panel will investigate possible reasons behind the failure of the three-stage rocket's first-stage engine, Davidenko said.

That's the translation of the Russian phrase for 'Someone's going to hang by their fuking neck until they're ded'.

i know i ask this every time there's a solar sail link, but really, how the fuck do you get back?

Tacking, fag.

am i missing something?

'At mission headquarters, project operations manager Jim Cantrell, right, joins Ann Druyan, program director and widow of astronomer Carl Sagan, and Planetary Society co-founder Bruce Murray, left, as they explain how no information has been received from the Solar Sail spacecraft after its successful launch from a Russian submarine, at Planetary Society headquarters in Pasadena, Calif., Tuesday, June 21, 2005.'

and

'It's good news because we are in orbit very likely in orbit,' Bruce Murray, a co-founder of The Planetary Society, which organized the mission, said before the Russian space agency's announcement.'


wtf?

Set your sails and FLY!

Russian launch fails. What's to be confused about?

well, the Planetary Society seems to think its floating around up there somwhere, at least according to their quotes...