Two years before the Antares rocket exploded on its way to space, Elon Musk called its outdated Russian engines "the punchline to a joke."
While most didn't blame Kuznetsov, the Russian company that made the engines for the Antares, for the explosion, the manufacturer felt it necessary to wag its finger at the United States. The Antares, a private, unmanned rocket owned by Orbital Sciences, exploded shortly after taking off at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday night. It was filled with about 5,000 pounds of supplies intended for astronauts at the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts and crew provisions Read more...
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