Antares launch from Wallops visible low on the eastern horizon in Nova @ 1845 tonight

[Chip Fetrow]

The engine is a 50 year old Soviet (Russian) design with some modifications, built in Russia.  The entire first stage is build in Ukraine.  Story Musgrave was on CNN yesterday before 7PM being very critical of us using such a large number of Russian engines, more than 50% of all US launch vehicles, and stated correctly that we had no catastrophic failures during the Saturn Program (though there were failures, but recoverable ones).

I am so happy we are launching there rockets here, instead of over there.

As an aside, I have never seen so many lights on in offices on Warp Drive as I saw last night.

—chip

On Oct 29, 2014, at 10:02 AM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> From: Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Antares launch from Wallops visible low on the eastern horizon in Nova @ 1845 tonight
> Date: October 28, 2014 at 11:02:43 PM EDT
> To: "tacos at amrad.org" <tacos at amrad.org>
> 
> I'm betting on a turbo pump failure.  BTW the engine is a Russian design.