Rocket in VA explodes after liftoff

[Freek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCWunnJXdm0
If you live near Virginia you probably heard about the rocket liftoff rescheduled for tonight and that if would be visible in the sky, but after lifting-off it blew up

oh well

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[Maxwell.]

i saw it live
looked like something got in the engine

[Rainzx¹]

Link?
I just got it my self
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/us/nasa-rocket-explodes/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[Alternat¡ve]

since op is a bundle of sticks here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCWunnJXdm0

[Archimedes]

Yeah, I'm playing EVE right now and I just heard it on comms from my corp.

Holy stuff... At least it wasn't manned.

[comr4de]

Nasa can't into rockets very well

[Swat 3]

exprosions

[HellHound]

Sometimes, a bird is sucked into a jet's engine.
This was a similar thing, but it was on a much grander scale (think elephants)

[Oasis]

Welp. Back to the drawing board I guess.

[Maxwell.]

Sometimes, a bird is sucked into a jet's engine.
This was a similar thing, but it was on a much grander scale (think elephants)

rockets don't suck things in
except screws and things that get in the fuel tanks/combustion chamber forget me

[Freek]

since op is a bundle of sticks here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCWunnJXdm0

sorry couldn't find it for some reason

[|Orange|]

Oh stuff hurt hurt lets defund nasa even more since accidents havent happen before

[Aide33]

i saw it live
looked like something got in the engine

Yeah they where testing some new engines

welp

Nasa can't into rockets very well

This wasn't a NASA rocket, it was an Orbital Sciences rocket.

CNN is blowing this out of proportion saying this was a classified crypto mission when it was just a CRS resupply for the ISS.
I got a link to the press kit to prove it: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Orbital_CRS3_press_kit.pdf

I saw this live too and I wonder why the automatic abort explosion wasn't triggered while in air to minimize the pad damage.

[Tayasaurus]

damn you michael bayyyyyyy

[Frostbyte]

Dangit Jeb

Atleast it was unmanned though.