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A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.
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Cygnus Orb-3
Failed late 2014 cargo mission to the ISS
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International Space Station
Inhabited space station in low Earth orbit
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Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
Commercial space launch facility
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Wallops Island
Island on the U.S. East Coast, within Virginia
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