A huge NASA balloon loaded with a telescope built to scan the sky at wavelengths invisible to the human eye crashed in the Australian outback on Thursday. The very massive telescope destroyed the astronomy experiment and nearly killed bystanders.
The expensive balloon while being loaded the balloon become loose from it's carriage. The balloon completely missed one car with two Alice Springs (The town in Australia) but turned another car completely over.
The balloon was carrying the Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) which is a gamma-ray telescope which was built by astronomer Steve Boggs and he colleagues at the University of California here in the United States.
Many astronomers who worked on the NCT were highly disappointed. After the massive crash they had to clean up after their hard work, picking up pieces to what could of been a great launch.
Luckily the crash of the telescope wasn't as bad as many thought. Most astronomers even said that the damage to the telescope can be fixed and making a new one is not necessary.
I hope everything goes well with the next balloon launch and maybe they will learn from their mistakes.
Well that's all today! More tomorrow:)
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