[FR_addict]

The article says that Orbital Science had another explosion in May. Admittedly, I haven't been following the successes of the public space companies, but I thought SpaceX had some successes. Why was Orbital Sciences given the contract over SpaceX???

[Cincinatus]

Both Orbital and SpaceX have re-supply contracts.

The space launch business will always have risks associated with launch accidents -- fact of life in the space biz. This accident is tragic, but they will recover from it. The Orbital Corp. Antares has already had three successful cargo deliveries to ISS.