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Travel Deals $1203* & up -- Business Class Holiday Flights to London, E/W   See all travel deals » BROCK VERGAKIS, The Associated Press Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 5:41 PM CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. (AP) - Crews searched for scorched wreckage along the Virginia coast Wednesday in hopes of figuring out why an unmanned commercial rocket exploded in a blow to NASA's strategy of using private companies to fly supplies and, eventually, astronauts to the International Space Station. The 140-foot Antares rocket, operated by Orbital Sciences Corp., blew up 15 seconds after lifting off for the space station Tuesday, lighting up the night sky and raining flaming debris on the launch site. No...

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