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Early Sunday morning, entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX will make its third attempt to land a rocket on an ocean barge – a feat that if successful would be historic.
The landing would happen minutes after the company’s Falcon 9 rocket blasts off carrying cargo to the International Space Station. The rocket is programmed to turn itself around after it separates from the capsule and a second-stage engine, which will continue to orbit.
The Hawthorne-based company is trying to land its 13-story unmanned rocket in the hope that it could be used again. Such reusable rockets have long been a goal in the industry because they could sharply reduce the cost of space travel.
This will be the seventh time SpaceX has carried cargo to the International Space Station under a contract with NASA.
The launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral is scheduled for 7:21 a.m. PDT. Coverage of the event by NASA’s television station begins at 6 a.m
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Launch Vehicle Failure!
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Something went wrong with the launch. @SpaceX is evaluating the status of the mission. Live updates on NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
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There was over 4,000 pounds of supplies, food, and science experiments inside the Dragon cargo ship that was affixed to the top of the rocket. Included with the experiments were two of Microsoft's HoloLens devices, which the astronauts were going to use to communicate with control room operators and to augment their tasks as part of a test program called Sidekick.
Still, this is the third space station resupply mission to fail in the last year, and the second in a row. Last October, Orbital ATK's Antares rocket exploded on the launchpad. And last month, Roscosmos sent a resupply ship to the station only to have it spin wildly out of control and eventually burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
