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SpaceX’s Thanksgiving rocket launch aborted twice at the last second

29
Nov
2013

Having originally been scheduled to celebrate Thanksgiving by taking to the stratosphere, SpaceXs launch was aborted at the last moment today. The Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to take off from Floridas Cape Canaveral Air Force Station sometime during a 65-minute launch window starting at 5:39 PM ET. The aborted launch was initially set to occur earlier this week, but SpaceX missed its last launch window due to a technical glitch. Saw pressure fluctuations on Falcon boost stage liquid oxygen tank, SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk wrote on Twitter at the time.

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