Musk: SpaceX Will Be ‘Stronger’ After Falcon 9 Failure

July 22, 2015
Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX plans to strengthen its preflight test process to prevent a recurrence of the June 28 failure that claimed a load of food, clothing and hardware bound for the International Space Station (ISS), and modify software so its Dragon capsule can try to “save itself” in a future mishap. Elon Musk...

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