The launch of an Orbital Sciences Antares rocket on Tuesday for an International Space Station resupply mission ended in a dramatic explosion, and many questions remain unanswered. NASA has formed an Accident Investigation Board to gather and review data, photos, and videos of the event, to determine what went wrong. Two of the most widely-viewed publicly available videos are shared here– one shot by a general aviation pilot who was flying near the Wallops Island launch site, and another by space and aviation journalist Stephen Young of SpaceFlight Now.
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About the video above, pilot Ed Sealing says, “I took this video of the very unfortunate Orbital Sciences rocket explosion on my iPad Mini. Video was taken in our Cessna 177 Cardinal from an altitude of 3,000 feet."
And below, SpaceFlightNow's Stephen Young captured the same accident moments after launch sending from the press site, which is very close to the launchpad at Wallops Island. In Stephen's video, you can see reporters and photographers at the press site running for cover.
