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

[Nan and Sandy Sanders]

Looks like the pad survived a lot better than the 
videos suggested. The rocket just missed landing 
back on the pad 
itself. 
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/launch-pad-looking-south-after-failure.jpg 

      Sandy
     WB5MMB





At 09:44 PM 10/29/2014, Chip Fetrow wrote:
>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.
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