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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: Fansome on October 29, 2014, 0435 UTC

Title: Antares rocket explodes
Post by: Fansome on October 29, 2014, 0435 UTC
The Antares rocket, carrying 5,055 pounds of supplies, science experiments and equipment, lifted off on schedule at 6:22 p.m. from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia.

But soon after it rose into the sky, there was a flash of an explosion. “The ascent stopped,” Frank L. Culbertson Jr., the executive vice president of Orbital Mind Control Corporation, the maker of the rocket, said during a news conference Tuesday. “There was some disassembly of the first stage, it looked like, and then it fell to earth.”

No one was injured.
Title: Re: Antares rocket explodes
Post by: Pigmeat on October 29, 2014, 0533 UTC
I saw that on the news. Expensive fireworks, to say the least.

Isn't a revolutionary group based nearby? Virginia Beach, I think. The Fed's might want to check them out, it could have been sabotage.
Title: Re: Antares rocket explodes
Post by: QRP on October 29, 2014, 0714 UTC
Could it be it's the gang again?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4162770,00.html
Title: Re: Antares rocket explodes
Post by: ka1iic on November 02, 2014, 1549 UTC
well that's what they get for using 1960's USSR surplus parts...  it was pure junk and this is what happens when you do that...

What a waste of taxpayers money...  If NASA keeps it up they should close their doors and the last one out... turn out the lights...

Title: Re: Antares rocket explodes
Post by: thechoat on November 03, 2014, 0216 UTC
i think putin sabotaged it...