It traveled millions of years through space, dropped into the Mojave Desert. It's been a long journey for the so-called Los Angeles meteorite, now on exhibit at the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park. The Sea Launch venture experienced the agony of defeat on Sunday when its Zenit rocket veered off course and crashed into the Pacific Ocean, destroying the first ICO mobile communications satellite. The U.S. Dept. of Energy's Multispectral Thermal Imager spacecraft is alive and well following its fiery overnight launch aboard an Orbital Sciences-built Taurus rocket on Sunday. Spaceflight Now .
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