It was meant to be a routine rocket launch to resupply the International Space Station, the fifth mission sent with that objective, and all witnesses expected yet another successful take-off of the ...

An unmanned rocket exploded in a fireball just after it launched from a NASA launchpad in Virginia on Tuesday evening, ending a planned supply mission to the International Space Station moments after ...

(CNN) — An unmanned NASA rocket exploded early Tuesday evening. According to NASA, the Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft were set to launch at 6:22 p.m. ET. It was ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The Antares rocket launch on Virginia's Eastern Shore was ...

Tuesday night, October 28, 2014, a 139-foot-tall (43 meters) Antares rocket was scheduled to take-off and reach the International Space Station in one of the many periodic resupply missions that ...

On Oct. 17, 2016, Orbital ATK returned to flight and successfully launched a cargo shipment to the International Space Station. The private spaceflight company was contracted by NASA to fly cargo to ...