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



By KENNETH CHANG

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.

Published: July 21, 2015 at 02:00AM

from #NYT Science Read the full article here: https://ift.tt/1MEucrj
via IFTTT