Last Tuesday, Orbital Science’s unmanned Antares rocket delivering supplies to the International Space Station exploded about 15 seconds into launch. Orbital says its engineers intentionally destroyed the rocket after detecting an unspecified failure. No one was injured. The failed launch would have been Orbital’s third of eight delivery missions to the ISS, part of a $1.9 billion contract with NASA signed in 2008.
Three days later, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo disintegrated mid-flight,...
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