Crew Dragon capsule destroyed in ground test: SpaceX

Washington: SpaceX has confirmed that its Crew Dragon capsule was destroyed during an engine test last month, possibly causing a drag to the company’s plan to bring astronauts into space this year. On April 20, an anomaly occurred during a testing of the Crew Dragon’s abort engines at a landing zone of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, but the private space company had not clarified whether the capsule, launched successfully into space in an unmanned mission in March, was destroyed or not, until Thursday. Before firing the abort engines, “there was an anomaly and the vehicle was destroyed,” said Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of Build and Flight Reliability at SpaceX at a press conference to brief the company’s planned cargo launch mission on Friday, Xinhua reported. (IANS)

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