American rocket, the Falcon 9 cargo to the ISS aboard exploded a couple of minutes after being launched from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral. The company SpaceX has released a full version of this catastrophe for the American space program.

Falcon 9 has pledged to bring Dragon cargo ship to the International space station (ISS). However something went wrong, Houston has formed difficulties after 42 seconds after the start and the wreckage of the rocket flew across the Atlantic.

As reported in NASA, the cause of the explosion has not been determined: "While we can't establish for sure what happened. We collect data and analyze information." The Ministry clarified that the foreseeable future will be held a press conference, where NASA will provide information about what happened to the rocket.

Meanwhile, convinces the head of the company SpaceX Elon Musk, the tragedy of American rocket could become unpredictable the resulting overpressure in the tank with liquid oxygen. "Violations in the work with the Falcon 9 happened shortly before the separation of 1 degree. Have any excess pressure in the tank with liquid oxygen, placed in the upper stage. The acquired data show the controversial cause of the accident. While all this, what we can say with complete confidence", - quotes the Mask TASS.

Immediately after the tragedy of American space truck Dragon the proposed NASA Roscosmos own help. Part of the American cargo to the ISS may be sent to the Russian "Progress" on 3 July. Considering opinion of experts, the loss of the Dragon will create significant challenges in securing the U.S. segment of the space station. According to his statement, except for food, water and air Dragon was supposed to bring to the ISS space suits are planned for the coming months exits American astronauts into space.

It is known that the Dragon ship was supposed to deliver to the station about 2 tons of cargo, even food, equipment and materials for scientific experiments, and after a few weeks of being in orbit to return to Earth. Under a contract with NASA for $ 1.6 billion Dragon was supposed to make 12 flights to the ISS through 2016.

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