One viewer said it started as a beautiful site, but it ended in a spectacular blast of fire.Today's edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS begins with a rocket explosion on Virginia's Coast.No one was on it, no one was hurt. The failure happened just after liftoff, 200 million dollar Antares rocket falling back down to earth.The explosion was so tremendous because the unmanned vehicle was carrying enough fuel to get it to the International Space Station.The accident could be seen per miles, the pilot of a small plane shot this video. NASA is now inspecting the damage to its Wallops Flight Facility and Orbital Science Corporation who built the rocket is leading the investigation into why this happened.And we have liftoff.The first stage was just seconds into a four-minute burn when the Antares rocket stalled, fell backward and exploded.Nearly three quarters of a million pounds of thrust went haywire and spectators across the bay say the blast shook the ground even there.Immediately probably about five seconds in you just saw kind of a fireball. And it wasn't―you could tell something immediately - that something was wrong.It also clearly shook Virginia-based Orbital Sciences,the private contractor that built the rocket under a nearly 2 billion contract with NASA now needs answers.
