Sunday 28 June 2015

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket explodes.

On 28th June 2015 SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket which was an unmanned rocket for international space station had exploded just min after lit-off. Nasa official is not sure what had caused the explosion and they are investigating the matter.

The rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla at 10:21 a.m. . Things was going smoothly when suddenly after 2 min it exploded. It was carrying more than 4000 pounds of food and supplies to the space station. It was unmanned so it was carrying no astronauts. American astronauts Scott Kelly is in space station and the supply was for him.

Two of the earlier launches of Space X had also failed. They were Orbital Antares rocket and Russian Progress 59.



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