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Rocket Issues force SpaceX and NASA to Postpone Falcon 9 Rocket Launch to January 2015
A SpaceX Falcon 9 erect at Cape Canaveral launch pad 40 awaiting launch on Sept 20, 2014 on the CRS-4 mission in this file photo. The next Falcon 9 launch has been postponed to Jan. 6, 2015 to ensure the rocket is ready. Credit: Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Due to technical problems encountered during a hot fire test of the first stage engines this week with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the planned Dec. 19 launch of the commercial rocket and NASA contracted Dragon cargo freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) on a critical resupply mission has been postponed a few weeks into the new year to Jan. 6 at the earliest “out of an abundance of caution,” SpaceX officials told Universe Today.(…)
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Post tags: commercial resupply services (CRS), Commercial Space, CRS, CRS-5, Dragon capsule, dragon cargo vessel, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, ISS, kennedy space center, NASA, SpaceX
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/117480/rocket-issues-force-spacex-and-nasa-to-postpone-falcon-9-rocket-launch-to-january-2015/
