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Rocket Carrying GPS 2R Satellite Explodes

Accidents happen. Even at NASA where they have strong testing and integrity procedures.

A rocket carrying a GPS 2R just seconds into the mission explodes.
More than 250 tons of flaming debri and rocket fuel rain down from the sky. The explosion occurs so close the the ground that the area around looks like a war zone.

Amazingly no one is injured!

The investigators later determine that there was a 17 foot crack in one of the boosters.

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rocket, explosion, satellite, accident, gps, 2r, sattellite, sattelite, booster, crack, fuel, debris