Failure of One Metal Strut Seemed to Doom SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 00:20 in Physics & Chemistry

Elon Musk, SpaceX’s chief executive, said a preliminary inquiry pointed to the failure of a single metal strip that was holding down a helium bottle within the second-stage liquid oxygen tank.

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