Boom!

[NickFitz]

Antares goes up, but in the wrong sense of the words:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHMmMgdcOSU

Short rations in the ISS for the next few weeks

[Platypus]

oops!

p.s. good spot, almost real time!

[jamesbrown]

The press are reporting this as a "NASA rocket", but it was actually a contractor.

Bloody contractors.

[alluvial]

I blame the boat in the way earlier.

Shame actually, but a great fireworks show.

[NickFitz]

I blame the boat in the way earlier.

Shame actually, but a great fireworks show.

They used fireworks? No wonder it didn't work!

[NickFitz]

Here's the view from the Press area, complete with strong language and a fair amount of panic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0SgAU9LXI

[BrilloPad]

Launched by a private company. There was a 10% chance of failure. To get to 0% would have put the project into loss. So they risked it....

[jmo21]

well done Nick, keep on billing!!!

wait... what...