Hundreds of spectators were near the NASA launchpad in Virginia with their cameras ready to capture the Antares launch on Tuesday evening. What they got instead was a fiery explosion followed by a deafening sound.
There were no injuries, and the cause of the explosion is still under investigation. Here are the videos of the incident as seen from eyewitnesses on the ground.
Crazy. Sitting front row at the #NASA Goddard Space Station. The #Antares #rocket headed to the international space station explodes at launch. 10 seconds later you could feel the shockwave.A video posted by Ian Z (@wutwolf) on Oct 10, 2014 at 3:52pm PDT