Good job NASA

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Someone's definitely losing their job this week. Maybe we should just export our entire space program...

I don't know... It's not the first time a space program has lost a rocket, and it certainly won't be the last. Accidents happen. Things don't always go as planned; Parts and systems malfunction. Unforseen events occur. It isn't always "someone's" fault. I'll wait until I read the final report before I pass judgement.

When you're sending up rockets as often as NASA is , things like this are bound to happen. No one bats 1.000.

Sure the mechanics behind the separation of a rocket from one stage of the launch to another has some technical issues, but i think common sense could figure it out. It's not nearly complex as all the technical details of a rocket engine.

Common sense? Are you actually saying that an average person would do just as good of a job engineering a rocket stage separation as a NASA engineer? I have to disagree with you, I think that's FAR above common sense.

I don't know the details, but I'm willing to bet that designing a stage-separation is more technical and complex than designing a rocket engine. A rocket is fairly simple by design, there's not really much to it. It's all the OTHER systems that are complex (eg. navigation, guidance, and control systems, etc.) Getting those systems to do what you want them to do, when you want them to, is the real challenge.