As a non American the idea that it makes the US look bad didn't enter my mnd until I read your post. First off, space is hard, rocket science is, wel, rocker sc

As a non American the idea that it makes the US look bad didn't enter my mnd until I read your post. First off, space is hard, rocket science is, wel, rocker science, space engineering is hard and everybody is entitled to off days, including NASA. But besides that, NASA is not the US, American are not their country. Why would some bad luck with a launch reflect onto people who have nothing to do with it? We all know that the US is very successful in terms of launches shit into space. It's gonna take a bit more than this to change that record.