An unmanned NASA-contracted 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."
However, experts are trying to determine why the rocket
exploded. According to CNN, the spacecraft had ‘’classified crypto equipment on
board’’
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