Antares launch explosion
 

This happened earlier today.. Once of these haven't happened in a long while and thankfully it was unmanned so no one was hurt.

:fulloffuck: Someone got fired for that shit.

It happens. The emergency abort was hit so the rocket self destructed.

+1 for spaceX

that's what happened to my rocket in grade 7 science after it chased a girl into a goal post.
what went wrong?

I was gonna watch this live earlier but didn't. Regrets!

someone left the over boosting feature on

NASA: building the worlds most expensive fireworks since 1958.

Not surprised some people are bitching about wasting taxpayer money when they fail to realise the entire NASA budget is a mere drop in the bucket when compared to their military budget. The Iraq War was money well spent?

We seem to need periodic reminders that we have a long way to go before we could ever say we have conquered space flight. What an awesome and humbling lesson. As they say: I fucking love science!

rip kerbal

LOL, I almost won a Darwin award with my first model rocket when I was maybe 11? Launched it, went up parachute didn't deploy came straight down I got under it thinking I'll catch it...........I jumped out of the way at the last second and instead of hitting my in the head it embedded a foot into the hard packed dirt. I laugh about it now but I'm not even kidding it would have killed me instantly.

view of the explosion from a nearby cessna!

i would've thought the air space would be closed so close to a launch

Isn't it a private rocket? Not taxpayer's money........ shit like this may actually make/save money for NASA. Too lazy to research it.

Nope, it had 5000lbs of equipment going to the space stations including lots of food.

Private rocket hired by NASA to restock the space station.

Damn, no soup for you, astronauts, cosmonauts, whathaveyou.


warp core breach, yo

there was a $1.5+m, kickstarter funded, telescope on there as well

When it blew up, I thought it was my DOTA queqe

Happy Halloween everybody!

if only it launched on Friday instead.

Virgin SpaceShipTwo went down today

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/sc...ight.html?_r=0

it doesnt matter. it's not a waste of money. you can be damned sure they learnt from this mistake. it's a learning process. they aint gonna let the same shit happen again. better it happen now than later when they have people on board.

Holy shit! That was awesome..only cos it was unmanned lol

The Virgin spaceship must be terrifying to ride in lol, be dropped from the host plane then ride the rocket booster to the edge of space and glide back in? Lol