SpaceX Launch of First Unmanned Craft to ISS Is Aborted
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A mission to send the first unmanned commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station was aborted less than a second before liftoff today after a computer detected an engine problem.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Hawthorne, California-based company’s Dragon capsule, attempted to lift off at 4:55 a.m. from Cape Canaveral, Florida.