Thursday, 2 May 2019

SpaceX confirms Crew Dragon capsule destroyed in ground test

The Crew Dragon capsule flew on the Demo-1 mission

After almost two weeks of silence and speculation, SpaceX has confirmed that the Crew Dragon capsule that recently visited the International Space Station (ISS) was destroyed during a postflight ground test. In a statement to the press, SpaceX vice president of mission assurance, Hans Koenigsmann, said that the craft was unmanned and no one was injured when an "anomaly" destroyed it during tests of its Draco and SuperDraco engines at the Kennedy Space Center.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2J92me8

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