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Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The pieces are scattered all over the coast of virginia. Valuable clues in determining why an unmanned rocket bound for the International Space station blew up last evening moments after liftoff. The rocket was 13 stories tal, owned and operated by Orbital Sciences, a private company, a 200 Million Mission wiped out in seconds. It is first failure in nasas commercial Space Program, and we have more now from chip reid in wallops island, virginia. One. Reporter for a brief moment, it looked like a perfect launch. And we have liftoff of antares. Reporter but just seconds later, the base of the unmanned rocket suddenly became engulfed in flames as it fell back to eart ....
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The pieces are scattered all over the coast of virginia. Valuable clues in determining why an unmanned rocket bound for the International Space station blew up last evening moments after liftoff. The rocket was 13 stories tal, owned and operated by Orbital Sciences, a private company, a 200 Million Mission wiped out in seconds. It is first failure in nasas commercial Space Program, and we have more now from chip reid in wallops island, virginia. One. Reporter for a brief moment, it looked like a perfect launch. And we have liftoff of antares. Reporter but just seconds later, the base of the unmanned rocket suddenly became engulfed in flames as it fell back to eart ....