SpaceX Goes Two-for-Two on Launches This Year
The company has launched a Falcon 9 rocket from a historic launchpad at Cape Canaveral and landed its first stage upright on solid ground.
by Marina Koren
Feb 19, 2017
2 minutes
Thirteen seconds before liftoff, a panicked voice on the livestream said, “hold, hold, hold!”
And so SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch on Saturday morning was scrubbed in the final seconds “out of an abundance of caution,” operators said, because of a potential problem in the rocket’s upper stage.
“Better to wait.
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