On Wednesday, Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket made history as it took off for the International Space Station to deliver its new payload capsule.
The flight marks the second private company to enter the realm of space exploration after the decommissioning of the space shuttle fleet and solidifies NASA's new commercial spaceflight initiatives.
Coverage from CNN for Orbital Science's rocket launch was a 5 minute segment that included an interview with a former NASA astronaut.
The anchor, Natalie Allen, starts the segment with a video of the Antares rocket launching into orbit where she spends about 40 seconds on the actual news bit of the launch.
She dives into background information at 47 seconds into the video.
At 1 minute 40 seconds Leroy Chiao, a former NASA astronaut and former member of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee is interviewed
The broadcast spent a little bit of time on the actual news, gave some deeper information and knowledge on subject and used Chiao to explain the current condition of the space program to the viewer.
She sources NASA, Orbital Sciences and Leroy Chiao.
The Wall Street Journal had a small tidbit on the Orbital Sciences launch, and was the only one out of the major national print newspapers that included it in any capacity.
Neither of the local newspapers included it in their pages.
The Journal dedicated seven by seven inches of space on page B3 of the business section of the Journal, including a seven by four and a half photo of the rocket taking off from the Wallops Space Center in Virginia with four columns.
This article was about three hundred words long, with a longer online version that doubled its word count.
Despite its page designation, the article by Andy Pasztor was a short blurb on the launch, the company and the new commercial space race between industry players in the United States to shuttle gear and personnel to the International Space Station.
It briefly touched up on the company's hiccups and its main competitor, Space Exploration Technologies Corp, commonly known as SpaceX.
There are no quotes in this print version.
Huffington Post's coverage had four sources, including a tweet from current ISS resident Karen Nyberg.
They used information gathered from Orbital Sciences, the company's executive vice president and retired astronaut Frank Culbertson and NASA.
Finally, a science writer by the name of Seth Borenstein also added to the article.
The Huffington Post article was 645 words long, had links to Orbital Science's company website and the NASA press release.
There was a bit more detail and casualness to the article, a bit more information on Orbital's only other competitor SpaceX and their own delivery system.
It felt a bit more in-depth than the CNN video and the Wall Street Journal blurb.
