SpaceX and NASA on January 19 purposefully blew up a Falcon 9 rocket. The "in-flight abort" test was meant to assess the Crew Dragon escape system. The Crew Dragon is a spacecraft attached to the Falcon 9 that is designed to take human passengers to space. The planned explosion can be tied to the Apollo 1 accident in which three astronauts died during a preflight test. Some experts believe that the space race pressured NASA into cutting corners at the expense of safety while testing Apollo 1. This led to stricter regulations for space missions that still apply today.
China has just entered a very exclusive club. It's now the third country to have soft-landed vehicles on the Moon. It achieved lunar orbit on 6 December 2013 and landed on 14 December 2013, becoming the first object to soft-land on the Moon since Luna 24 in 1976.
Explosion at video time 23:35. SpaceX CRS-7 was a private American rocket cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, contracted to NASA, and launched and failed on June 28, 2015. It exploded 139 seconds into the flight, just before the first stage was to separate from the second stage.
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