Antares rocket explodes

[Fansome]

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.

[Pigmeat]

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.

[QRP]

Could it be it's the gang again?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4162770,00.html

[ka1iic]

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...

[thechoat]

i think putin sabotaged it...