Mar 6 1987
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
James Elliott, a spokesman for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, announced that a NASA rocket exploded about 20 seconds after launch from Poker Flats, Alaska. The small rocket, carrying an upper-atmosphere plasma experiment, detonated when its second stage malfunctioned. (W Post, Mar 8/87)
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