The first attempt to launch the Antares rocket with a dummy Cygnus spacecraft aboard was scrubbed with 10 minutes to go on the countdown, due to an umbilical coming out from the second stage of the booster prematurely. The launch control team ended the countdown, and they will try again in two days or more. These things happen, and at least the booster and its payload weren’t destroyed in a failure on ascent, or any other malady that can bedevil a launcher’s first try to launch a spacecraft to orbit.

   The launch team will recycle and try again, and maybe next time Antares will vault into orbit, and Orbital Sciences will prove they have the Right Stuff to send cargo to the International Space Station, as they are determined to do for their customer, NASA. Better luck next time OSC. You can do it!