Posted on 06/28/2015 1:24:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket traveling at 2,900 mph, about 27 miles above the earth disintegrated 2 minutes and 19 seconds into its flight from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station.
It was a severe blow to NASA, still reeling from two previous failed Space Station resupply missions. The SpaceX failure is a reprieve for Russias Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft that will remain the prime Space Station servicer, despite recently renewed US sanctions against Russia.
The SpaceX launch, its seventh robotic cargo mission to the International Space Station, was running at what NASA called on course, on track before the mission failure.
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Maybe it could be taken I was a little hard on Space X and forgot about the Russian Progress failure but it still gets my goat that we have to thumb rides off the Russians.
There is more to SpaceX than just being able to launch without failure. They are attempting to advance the technology to make launches radically cheaper. Russians have the same expensive rockets from the 60s.
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