A NASA scientific balloon giant fell shortly after takeoff in Australia, Thursday (29/04/2010) so that the cargo-damage worth millions of dollars-to overthrow a great car, and almost a fear of harm supervisor.

Impressions crash showed dramatically lower the balloon loose from their moorings, hit the fence and toppled a big truck before it hit the earth.

"We were sitting in our car and get ready to go and we really almost hit because it is only 30 meters from where the balloon is falling," said a spectator who was relieved in dipancar impressions and over by a TV station ABC.

"If only there was another car there, we already have in place now, I guess," he said.

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

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

"(There) debris flying through the air," a witness said another. "That is, chaos occurs instantaneously."

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

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

"Bubble, that's what happens sometimes, but it's very, very disappointing. The truth is very painful," said Sood told ABC.