An unmanned rocket has exploded seconds after lift off from a commercial launch pad in Virginia, USA.
The event happened on Tuesday evening and was broadcast on a NASA TV.
The 14-storey rocket, built and launched by Orbital Sciences blasted off its seaside launch pad carrying cargo ship for the space station.
The cause of the accident was not immediately known, said Nasa mission commentator Dan Huot.
The launch off the rocket was successful but it t exploded in a huge fireball moments later.
The Antares rocket has been launched successfully on four previous missions.
The International Space Station is a $100 billion research laboratory owned and operated by 15 nations, flies about 418km above Earth.
Watch the video below. The launch sequence starts at 3:45
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that would be so scary down underneath it aaah
Wow That is so so so dangerous. Did anyone die???
I’m wondering what caused it to happen
It’s so weird for it to happen so fast just after it launched. Why would it blow so quickly?
omg
Could be over heat in the enigene
WOW THAT IS AWESOME ! 🙂
It was unmanned luckily
That was so scary. Why did it do it then why didn’t it do it on one of the other missions
Did something change?
Why would anyone spend $100 billion on 1 single rocket that is not even made properly or it wouldn’t of exploded in thin air???
WOW! I’m glade that nobody got hurt
WOW! that was #awesome I was so amazed when it exploded after it was able to work 4 other times.
i think it was luky that there were no men abord the rocet ship i no that becauce i read the text and it said unmanned
It was good that no people were in the rocket at the time because it said unmanned
im so glade no one was in the rocket
why did the rocket explode in the sky?
Luckily nobody was on board because it said in the text that it was unmanned 🙂
Lucky no one died I’m so happy