Best part? 0:24, fire and debris falling everywhere, voice says: "We just had an anomoly in the Delta 2 launch vehicle . . ."

That reminds me of the Challenger explosion, bellman, when a voice from flight control said "there appears to be a major malfunction".

Lucky no one was hurt this time.

"Devastating accident"? An understatement if you ask me.

A seventeen feet long crack? So only a minor blemish then.

The 'splashes' of fire are incredible, like drops of water in close-up slow motion. So much power is needed to take a satellite up to space.

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Great post. I'm surprised I've never seen this before.

Wow. Even the highest-grade fireworks could not make that, its too dangerous! Its good it wasnt a manned craft too.

*promote

More explosions for old times' sake.

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Friday 23rd June 2006 (promotion called by gold star member sbchapm)

i bet it was all planed out, where is there parking lot filled with cars and what a bomb shelter.

If your sending rockets into space you put your command center in a reinforced building that could be called a bomb shelter if you wanted. Insurance will cover the cars so don't bother with that.

Jumpin' Jebus.

woo, one of my first posts

Damn I'd hate to be a claims adjuster... "yeah you could take that to a shop and maybe buff out the scratches... Of course you'd have a minimal co-pay..."

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