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A rocket exploded just after it launched from a NASA launchpad on Virginia’s eastern shore bound Tuesday evening on a supply mission to the International Space Station.
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Scientists were scrambling to figure out what went wrong as Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket, carrying an unmanned Cygnus capsule hauling thousands of pounds of space gear, exploded in a fireball just after its 6:22 p.m. ET blast-off.
Nobody was believed to have been injured, though there was significant damage to the equipment.
The launch was supposed to kick off the third in a series of eight planned Orbital delivery missions to ferry crucial equipment and food to astronauts.
This one was also supposed to carry a trove of science experiments.
An unmanned Antares rocket was launched 6:22 EST from the Virginia Coast to deliver goods to the International Space Station. However, a few seconds after lift-off, the bottom of the rocket got caught up into flames, following the descent of the craft back to the ground and an enormous explosion when it hit the pad.