The first setback suffered American private company SpaceX are still successfully launches a rocket, the Falcon 9 into space. Yesterday, 28 June at 17:21 Moscow time, after being launched from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral rocket exploded in the final moment of the first degree. In the air it lasted for 2 minutes and 19 seconds. As a preliminary cause of the crash is called high blood pressure in the oxidizer tank to the second degree of the rocket. Along with the rocket was lost and the cargo ship Dragon, which was carried to the ISS equipment, food, spacesuits, just weighing almost two tons.

As assured in the PCO, the loss of the cargo ship Dragon will not have a catastrophic effect on the ISS. Resource systems and products will last for another three months. Also coming soon to the ISS kicks off the space truck "Progress", which will take on Board everything you need.

The disaster has shown that space exploration is a very complicated matter and no one is immune from technical problems or errors.
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