US News ISS-bound NASA rocket explodes on takeoff in Virginia

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An unmanned rocket exploded shortly after takeoff Tuesday evening on Virginia’s eastern shore. Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket was carrying thousands of pounds of equipment to restock the International Space Station.

The launch was supposed to be the third of eight planned Orbital missions to ferry gear and food to astronauts aboard the ISS. The rocket had some 5,000 pounds of food, supplies and science experiments, which all were engulfed in a fireball just above NASA’s Wallop’s Island facility.

The team on the ground has confirmed there are no injuries, although because of “classified crypto equipment” onboard, it is in the process of securing the surrounding area, chatter on the livestream of the launch said.

Orbital called the enormous blast a “vehicle anomaly” on Twitter.

Read more and watch the video here: http://rt.com/usa/200283-nasa-antares-rocket-explodes/

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The Russians are giggling hard right now. This news is from the RT times - a russian based news outlet and you know it is not being carried by US news agencies. Looking forward to other Private Contractors to get some new delivery systems up and this one needs to just go away - Orbital has obviously been hacked big time. IMHO.
 
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At least got a cool video out of it.
 
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We got some local coverage of it because some of our local school kids had a science project on it. No video and a dead link to some press conference where you had to watch a 30 second commercial to see an expired live feed of a press conference. FAIL local news. FAIL US news. Such a tragedy to see our news so controlled by the government and everyone brainwashed. Freaking sad. Freaking sad when the RT Times, a Russian US news agency has the real facts - such a shame job and regular Joe Blow American is like I dont care I got mine. Sad.
 
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I had a video on my Facebook page, interestingly before NASA's pre-explosion posts reached my newsfeed.
 
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Wow. Just wow.
After 70ish years shouldnt they have figured out by now how to build these rockets?
What happened, did all their precious nazi scientists retire?
 
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