Tag: Orbital

NASA Antares Report & OIG Concerns About Astronaut Health
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NASA Antares Report & OIG Concerns About Astronaut Health

Two NASA reports released late this week bring to mind the old adage “we don’t know what we don’t know.” The first concerns the explosion of an Orbital Sciences, (now Orbital ATK ) Antares booster carrying a Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station on October 28th 2014. One year later, a NASA Independent […]

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NASA’s OIG Report on Orbital Antares Failure
By 2015.09.18 0 Comments Read More →

NASA’s OIG Report on Orbital Antares Failure

NASA’s Office of Inspector General has released a report regarding the agency’s response to Orbital Sciences’ October 28th, 2014 failure of an Antares booster launching the Orb-3 ISS re-supply mission. The full report can be found here, and is an interesting read. Like most NASA OIG reports,  it is clearly written and contains a great […]

Posted in: NASA, Orbital Sciences Corporation
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