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The rocket was carrying supplies to the worldwide Space Station.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was carrying Dragon capsule full of supplies and equipment to astronauts on the space station.

The unmanned spacecraft, which had been carrying supplies to the global Space Station, was destroyed less than three-minutes after taking off.

On Sunday, an unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and the first-of-its-kind docking port to the global Space Station broke apart shortly after liftoff.

Everything appeared to be ideal when the Falcon took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday until a video showed the rocket disintegrating a little over two minutes after its launch, according to NBC news.

After SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a cargo launch Sunday, customers have been surrounded by uncertainty about when their satellites might fly. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, following what was meant to be a...

Musk, 44, founded SpaceX in 2002 with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

“Crew reports, “Feels like Christmas in July””, the official ISS Twitter account posted after the docking.

An unmanned Russian cargo ship successfully docked with the global Space Station (ISS) yesterday following a string of failed attempts to resupply the orbital laboratory.

The successful delivery of cargo by the Russian Progress spacecraft comes a week after the failed launch of the American SpaceX CRS-7 Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship with supplies for the ISS.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: The distant launch of a small Russian Progress spacecraft, laden with more than three tons of supplies for the global Space Station, would ordinarily command little attention.

According to reports, a Russian rocket became successful in launching an uncrewed cargo ship to the worldwide Space Station after failure of two previous supply missions in a row.

Pam Underwood of the FAA said the expedition had been conducted under an FAA launch license and the FAA would provide oversight to SpaceX as it tried to work out what had happened.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft exploded just minutes after launch. Elon Musk said on Sunday on Twitter that there was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank.