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Private rocket explodes on launch to space station

An Orbital Sciences Antares rocket exploded seconds after its 6:22 p.m. lift-off from Wallops Island, Virginia, Tuesday on a mission to resupply the International Space Station. No one was hurt but the rocket was apparently destroyed and there was “significant property damage,” according to mission control commentators on NASA television. 

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