--- title: Antares Rocket: Pilot Footage of Explosion, NASA, ISS description: The cause of the explosion is still unknown canonical: https://time.com/3546009/antares-rocket-explosion-pilot-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-29T16:48:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:10.102Z og:title: Watch This Pilot's Dramatic Midair Video of the Antares Rocket Explosion og:description: The cause of the explosion is still unknown og:url: https://time.com/3546009/antares-rocket-explosion-pilot-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e69d1233db6c036/698763392dce0154a59db32a/antares-rocket.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 7360 og:image:height: 4140 og:image:alt: Orbital Sciences Antares Launch og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Pilot's Dramatic Midair Video of the Antares Rocket Explosion twitter:description: The cause of the explosion is still unknown twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e69d1233db6c036/698763392dce0154a59db32a/antares-rocket.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch This Pilot's Dramatic Midair Video of the Antares Rocket Explosion > Sponsored content. 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This image provided by NASA shows the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard suffers a catastrophic anomaly moments after launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Joel Kowsky—AP by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 29, 2014 4:48 PM UTC Ed Sealing was up in a Cessna airplane hoping to get a glimpse of a rocket launch at NASA’s facility in Wallops Island, Va. “I’ll be honest, I’ve never seen a rocket launched before,” Sealing [told USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/28/nasa-rocket-explodes-wallops-island/18080871/). “And I still haven’t…. It was definitely dramatic.” Sealing had the camera on his iPad rolling when the launch turned into a dramatic and unfortunate series of explosions that blew apart the unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp.’s [Antares rocket](http://time.com/3544723/antares-explosion-nasa-elon-musk/) and Cygnus cargo module. “I just kind of thought, that’s not right, something’s wrong there,”[ Sealing said](http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/28/nasa-rocket-explodes-wallops-island/18080871/). “Then there was a second big explosion.” Sealing was able capture it all and posted the footage [to YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zarWT7H9t54) where it has quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views. While no one was hurt in the explosion, the cargo rocket was carrying 5,000 pounds of experiments and equipment for NASA, including food supplies for the astronauts in the International Space Station. The cause of the explosion is [still unknown](http://time.com/3545524/cause-sought-for-space-supply-rocket-explosion/). **MORE:** [What NASA’s Antares Explosion Means](http://time.com/3544723/antares-explosion-nasa-elon-musk/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3546009/antares-rocket-explosion-pilot-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3546009/antares-rocket-explosion-pilot-video/"},"headline":"Watch This Pilot's Dramatic Midair Video of the Antares Rocket Explosion","datePublished":"2014-10-29T16:48:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:10.102Z","description":"The cause of the explosion is still unknown","url":"https://time.com/3546009/antares-rocket-explosion-pilot-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Space","NASA","viral","Videos","Viral Videos","rocket"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e69d1233db6c036/698763392dce0154a59db32a/antares-rocket.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e69d1233db6c036/698763392dce0154a59db32a/antares-rocket.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Orbital Sciences Antares Launch","caption":"Orbital Sciences Antares Launch","creditText":"Joel Kowsky—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3546009/antares-rocket-explosion-pilot-video/","name":"Watch This Pilot's Dramatic Midair Video of the Antares Rocket Explosion"}}]}] ```