Testing, one, two, oops

Seems NASA used a brand-new rocket design to launch seventeen million bucks worth of research satellites from Wallops Island in Virginia. Made by Alliant Techsystems, it didn't work, veered off course, and they had to blow it up at only 12,000 feet. The Minneapolis-based company makes the solid-rocket boosters for NASA's space shuttles and is working with the space agency on its new moon rockets.

Rico says he hopes the big ones for the moon missions work better; we don't need another Challenger...