NASA Vows to Continue Commercial Rockets After Explosion
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The U.S. vowed to continue its commercial space launch program just hours after a rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station exploded over a Virginia launch pad.
The unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp. rocket burst into an orange fireball yesterday above the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s eastern shore. Orbital, which is leading an investigation into the cause of what NASA called a “catastrophic anomaly” at 6:22 p.m. yesterday, fell the most in eight years in trading today.