Jun 10 1987
From The Space Library
NASA announced that lightning had destroyed an Orion rocket scheduled for launch. The intense storm at the Wallops Flight Center, Wallops Island, Virginia, also destroyed the scientific experiment payload. (NASA Release 87-97; NY Times, June 11/87; W Post, June 11/87; H Chron, June 11/87)
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