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Glitch on SpaceX Space Station Flight Grounds its Rockets

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard, Saturday, September. 28, 2024, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Photo: Getty Images.

A minor mishap during Saturday's launch of the SpaceX "Crew 9" flight of a Dragon capsule atop a workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, prompted Elon Musk's company to temporarily suspend flights of those rockets. The glitch didn't threaten the mission, but the internal investigation the incident triggered points up how difficult rocket science is and may illustrate how SpaceX could be a victim of its own business success.


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