You guys realize that this wasn’t a NASA-assembled vehicle, right?
That’s irrelevant. This was NASA’s responsibility. Hire the RIGHT PEOPLE then.
Don’t look for any sense here. This thread is almost as stupid as the CNN idiots making breathless commentary, augmented by nonsense from Leroy Chao and Mark Kelly, who both just proved they know hardly anything about rockets.
It’s a setback for the CRS program. It will probably also turn out to be an indictment of Aerojet for relying on the NK-33 variant they use called the AJ-26.
From the video looks like there was a combustion instability leading to an overpressure that umm...led to Boom. Almost certainly one of the AJ-26’s had a big hiccup.
Next time Aerojet might try designing their own stuff instead of refurbishing old Russian bent metal.