Launch failure occurs at Virginia spaceport
Thursday, October 30, 2014 A launch failure occurred at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday. The failure occurred when Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket, which was carrying the Cygnus vehicle with cargo of 5,000 pounds (about 2,300 kg), exploded after liftoff at 6:22 p.m. local time (2222 UTC), …