Air Force: NASA's New Rocket Unsafe for Astronauts - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News - FOXNews.comOw. There's got to be a better way.NASA's next-generation Ares I manned-mission rocket may be a death trap, at least for the first minute after liftoff, an Air Force study concludes.
If the Ares I rocket malfunctioned, the report says, the crew capsule's escape system would not be able to blast itself and the astronauts inside it to safety, according to the Orlando Sentinel.Instead, a huge cone of red-hot rocket fuel would be spread over nearly three miles and the crew capsule's parachutes would be incinerated, causing it to fall thousands of feet to the Atlantic Ocean.
NASA's saying there's no real problem with that - but I'm unfortunately skeptical of NASA's credibility these days.
J.