Falcon 9 rocket fuel started with rocket-level kerosene and melting oxygen 45 minutes before a 3:22 pm (1922 GMT) recorded explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket and its Crew Dragon capsule with astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Turley on board.
Le Agence France-Presse | Post by: Harshit Sabarwal | Kennedy Space Center, USA
UPDATE ON MAIRI 31, 2020 12:24 AM IST
The SpaceX start-up director took the green light Saturday to fuel the rocket for a historic flight to the International Space Station with two NASA astronauts.
“We’re going for transhipment,” said director of publishing Mike Taylor.
Falcon 9 rocket fuel started with rocket-level kerosene and melting oxygen 45 minutes before a 3:22 pm (1922 GMT) recorded explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket and its Crew Dragon capsule with astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Turley on board.
Wednesday’s launch was postponed due to bad weather just 17 minutes before construction and the weather was also uncertain on Saturday.
SpaceX is aiming to be the first private company to put astronauts into orbit in the first crew spaceflight from U.S. soil since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.
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