Just over a minute into its flight, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded in a fiery burst some 19km above the ground in what CEO Elon Musk later described as a “picture perfect mission.” That’s because the crew capsule atop it had ejected exactly as planned, successfully simulating an emergency escape…
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