Russian Proton-M rocket crashes, erupts in ball of fire (PHOTOS, VIDEO) on.rt/w7bx34 gor Marinin, Editor-in-Chief of Russia’s Cosmonautics News magazine told RT that there have not been any rocket crashes during the first seconds of flight for at least ten years in the Russian space industry. “This is a phenomenal accident,” he said. The Proton-M uses highly toxic heptyl fuel, the expert said, but “it is burning out right now so the consequences will be minor. The major threat is poisonous fumes from the burning fuel and the major task now is to make sure that nobody gets into the heptyl smoke.”
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:52:23 +0000
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