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U.S. Space Agency Is Looking Into Why Launch Malfunctioned

Virginia- The combined efforts by the US National Space Agency and Alliant Technical Systems, Inc. is focused on the failure of a rocket to launch correctly from its pad on Friday.

The location for liftoff was from the NASA space site in Wallops Flight Facility, located in Virginia, and the time that the rocket was supposed to lift off was 5:10am in the morning.

The fact that the rocket did lift off but then had to be destroyed was very disappointing to NASA, but the main issue in recent years for the Space Agency has been to insure that the public safety was never at risk.

NASA is gathering an investigation team that is multidisciplinary in nature, to fully investigate exactly what happened with the rocket launch failure.

The rocket actually lifted off but then had to be destroyed shortly after it took off at 5:10am. An unexpected anomaly suddenly occurred that made the launch safety officers self-destruct the rocket about 27 seconds into the launch.

No one was hurt and the rocket fell harmlessly into the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the debris just simply spilled into the ocean.

NASA did not say what the rocket carried, but both NASA and Alliant Technical Systems, Inc. are continuing their overall investigations.

With the different safety issues that have plagued NASA in recent years, if a rocket begins to go off course after takeoff for any reason, rather than endanger public safety it is typically immediately destroyed by NASA Safety officers, as it was this time.