SpaceX aborts first private launch to space station
Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 00:31
in Astronomy & Space
Computers sense an engine anomaly at the last second and shut down the Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla.The first mission by a private company to the International Space Station was aborted before dawn Saturday at Cape Canaveral, Fla., when computers detected an anomaly in one of the rocket's engines and automatically shut down the launch sequence.