Supply rocket headed to space station explodes

Originally posted by humy
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-commercial-rocket-liftoff.html

whoops! it was a spectacular launch! -for the wrong reasons. At least it was unmanned.

I notice in the article, they attempt to lay blame on the rockets themselves which were made in Russia. A sly attempt at distraction. I assume they have good telemetry data and will be able to figure out what really went wrong.

The Russians have offered help to resupply the ISS:

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-russia-space-station-rocket.html