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3 min readElon Musk’s SpaceX signed a contract with Axiom Space on Thursday to send the first fully private flight with tourists and a tour guide to the International Space Station in the second half of 2021.A SpaceX rocket launch was aborted after countdown finished Sunday at Kennedy Space Center. Although some of the Falcon 9's rockets had already ignited, a power issue triggered an auto abort, the company said.
"The purpose of the countdown is to catch potential issues prior to flight. There are a thousand ways a launch could go wrong and only one way it can go right," Michael Andrews, a SpaceX supply chain supervisor, said during the launch's livestream. People watch from Playalinda Beach at Canaveral National Seashore as a cloud of smoke forms when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites failed to launch, March 15, 2020.
People watch from Playalinda Beach at Canaveral National Seashore as a cloud of smoke forms when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites failed to launch, March 15, 2020.The rocket was set to launch 60 new satellites into orbit. SpaceX said it will determine a date to re-attempt lift off.
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