Giant NASA Balloon Fall

A NASA scientific balloon giant fell shortly after takeoff in Australia, Thursday (29/4/2010), thus damaging its cargo - worth millions of dollars - to overthrow a big car and almost supervisors who fear harm.

Impressions dramatic accident shows the bottom of the balloon loose from their moorings, struck a fence and rolled a large truck before hitting the earth.

"We were sitting in our car and getting ready to go and we actually almost hit because it is located only 30 meters from where the balloon had fallen," said one spectator who was relieved, in repeated impressions-dipancar by ABC TV station.

"If only there was no other car there, we already have in other places now, I think," he said.

The balloon, the size of a football field when inflated and is designed to fly at an altitude of 40 kilometers, away in the stratosphere, fell back to the launch of Alice Springs after the bottom fell down.

Some witnesses said they were asked to move away before the luggage, which contained sensitive scientific equipment, suddenly dragged across the chute. "We started moving the car and almost hit," said one eyewitness.

"(There's) debris flying in the air," said an eyewitness stated. "That is, the chaos happening at once."

Many scientists last week completed the launch of a similar balloon to measure gamma rays and X-rays delivered by a variety of distant stars and galaxies from the Earth's atmosphere.

Ravi Sood, Director of the Alice Springs Balloon Launcing Centre, said scientists involved in NASA projects ditaja was very disappointed.

"Markup, that's what happens sometimes but it's very, very disappointing." Actually, very painful, "said Sood told ABC.