Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff
I had a close friend who worked on this.  Everybody in our lab stopped working this afternoon to watch it launch, and to cheer our friend on.<p>Definitely went from "YAY!" to sad really quick.<p>It's been said other places in this thread, but to echo it again: I really feel for all the engineers involved in this.  That's got to be devastating.<p>To everybody: failures suck, but big spectacular failure is directly correlated to the difficulty of what you're trying to do.  If you're failing, you're doing something right.<p>Back when I used to mountain bike a lot, it was a personal "joke" that I wasn't really riding unless I crashed at least once.  That's how I knew I was pushing myself to improve.<p>Don't fret the failures.