Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: SpaceX rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship bound for the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The Falcon 9 rocket was launched at 4:10 pm (2010 GMT).
LIFTOFF of #Falcon9 and #Dragon on the CRS-6 mission to resupply the space station for @NASA. http://t.co/tdni5406Hi pic.twitter.com/K4umPf48X2
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 14, 2015
The main aim of Falcon 9 rocket is to launch a Dragon cargo capsule carrying food, clothing and other equipments to ISS.
A day before, the countdown for the lift-off was aborted due to bad weather.
Meanwhile, SpaceX's attempt to land the rocket upright on an ocean platform failed.
SpaceX chief Elon Musk said on Twitter: “Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival”.
Looks like Falcon landed fine, but excess lateral velocity caused it to tip over post landing pic.twitter.com/eJWzN6KSJa
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2015
SpaceX is hired by NASA to fly cargo to the station following the retirement of the space shuttles and its goal is development of fully reusable rockets.
(With Agency inputs)
