After a slight delay due to weather, private space transport company SpaceX launched a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to the International Space Station.
Seeing the Dragon cargo ship well on on its way to delivering a two tonne payload of supplies, research equipment and an espresso maker to the ISS, its reusable booster rockets narrowly missed its secondary goal of landing on a floating barge for the first time. Unfortunately, the craft toppled over after seemingly sticking its landing on the barge, which you can see in the video below.
"Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival," SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted. "Droneship is fine. No hull breach and repairs are minor. Impact overpressure is closer to a fast fire than an explosion.”
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Seeing the Dragon cargo ship well on on its way to delivering a two tonne payload of supplies, research equipment and an espresso maker to the ISS, its reusable booster rockets narrowly missed its secondary goal of landing on a floating barge for the first time. Unfortunately, the craft toppled over after seemingly sticking its landing on the barge, which you can see in the video below.
"Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival," SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted. "Droneship is fine. No hull breach and repairs are minor. Impact overpressure is closer to a fast fire than an explosion.”
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