NASA Antares Rocket Launch Failure - Huge Explosion

[JDPriestly]

7. Yes.

The third Orbital Sciences cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract is scheduled to launch at 6:22 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 28, from Pad 0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

NASA Television coverage of Tuesday's launch will begin at 5:30 p.m. A post-launch news conference will follow at approximately 8 p.m.

A Monday launch attempt was scrubbed because of a boat down range in the trajectory Orbital’s Antares rocket would have flown had it lifted off.

A Tuesday launch will result in the Cygnus spacecraft arriving at the space station early Sunday, Nov. 2. NASA TV coverage of rendezvous and berthing will begin at 3:30 a.m. with grapple at approximately 4:58 a.m.

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/october/launch-of-third-orbital-sciences-mission-to-space-station-rescheduled-nasa-tv/

Republicans like to tell us that private enterprise does things better, more efficiently and cheaper than the government. Well, NASA wasn't perfect. But obviously privatizing NASA's work hasn't helped to make our rocket program any better than it was.