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Up Close Launch Pad Cameras capture Spectacular Sound and Fury of Antares/Cygnus Jan. 9 Blast off to Space Station – Video Gallery

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 20:22
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Video caption: Antares ORB-1 Launch Pad Camera on south side of pad 0A being hammered from Orbital Sciences Antares rocket launch at 1:07 p.m. EST on January 9th 2014, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, VA, carrying the Cygnus resupply spacecraft to the ISS. Credit: Mike Killian/Matt Travis/ Jeff Seibert/Mike Barrett/AmericaSpace.com/MikeKillianPhotography.com/ZeroGnews.com/Wired4Space.com

What’s it like to be standing at a rocket launch pad? Especially when it’s embarking on a history making flight to the space station thats blasting the opening salvos of the new ‘commercial space era’ heard round the world?

Thrilling beyond belief!

And what’s it like to be standing at the launch pad when the engines ignite and the bird begins soaring by guzzling hundreds of thousands of pounds of burning fuel, generating intense heat and deadly earsplitting noise?

Well for a first-hand, up-close experience to(…)
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Post tags: Antares rocket, commercial cargo, Cygnus cargo vessel, NASA, NASA Wallops, Orbital Sciences Corporation, private space

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