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28 Oct 2014, 6:07 pm

Unmanned NASA rocket explodes

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(CNN) -- An unmanned NASA rocket exploded early Tuesday evening along the eastern Virginia coast, causing a huge fireball but no apparent deaths.
According to NASA, the Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft were set to launch at 6:22 p.m. ET from the Wallops Flight Facility along the Atlantic Ocean. It was set to carry some 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station.
"There was failure on launch," NASA spokesman Jay Bolden said. "There was no indicated loss of life.
Bolden added, "There was significant property and vehicle damage. Mission control is trying to assess what went wrong."
The launch had been scheduled for Monday, but that was scrubbed "because of a boat down range in the trajectory Antares would have flown had it lifted off," according to NASA.
Just before Tuesday's liftoff, the space agency reported "100% favorable" weather and "no technical concerns with the rocket or spacecraft being worked."

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28 Oct 2014, 6:33 pm

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Bolden added, "There was significant property and vehicle damage. Mission control is trying to assess what went wrong."

The understatement of the year................ :roll:

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28 Oct 2014, 7:08 pm

Raptor wrote:

From the article:

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Bolden added, "There was significant property and vehicle damage. Mission control is trying to assess what went wrong."

The understatement of the year................ :roll:

Fortunately no injuries or loss of life. Some days you get the bear and some days the bear gets you.
No future without some risk.

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28 Oct 2014, 7:25 pm

Houston we've had a problem!
That was a huge explosion.
I hope the Atlas V that is expected to launch here tomorrow doesn't also explode.
Now I keep misreading ISS as ISIS. :roll:

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28 Oct 2014, 10:07 pm

AntDog wrote:

Houston we've had a problem!
That was a huge explosion.
I hope the Atlas V that is expected to launch here tomorrow doesn't also explode.
Now I keep misreading ISS as ISIS. :roll:

too bad we can't put ISIS [or ISIL or whatever the hell they wanna call themselves] on one of those atlas V things and zoom them out to deep space.

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29 Oct 2014, 12:53 am

auntblabby wrote:

AntDog wrote:

Houston we've had a problem!
That was a huge explosion.
I hope the Atlas V that is expected to launch here tomorrow doesn't also explode.
Now I keep misreading ISS as ISIS. :roll:

too bad we can't put ISIS [or ISIL or whatever the hell they wanna call themselves] on one of those atlas V things and zoom them out to deep space.

Or just give them a bunch of Atlas V rockets as a gift!

They will launch them as missles against us- and blow themselves up!

Then we can "help" the few surviving ISIS members by gifting them with the recalled cars equiped with those defective Japanese airbags!

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29 Oct 2014, 1:00 am

naturalplastic wrote:

Or just give them a bunch of Atlas V rockets as a gift! They will launch them as missles against us- and blow themselves up! Then we can "help" the few surviving ISIS members by gifting them with the recalled cars equiped with those defective Japanese airbags!

too bad this all happened 30 years too late, back in the day we could have shot exploding pintos at them!

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29 Oct 2014, 3:29 pm

I'm glad there were no people on board that rocket, otherwise it would have been the Columbia disaster all over again.

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29 Oct 2014, 5:07 pm

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I'm glad there were no people on board that rocket, otherwise it would have been the Columbia disaster all over again.

That was Challenger not Columbia, Columbia exploded during reentry.

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