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Smoke seen for miles as SpaceX Crew Dragon suffers 'anomaly' at Cape Canaveral
MSN ^ | 04/21/2019 | Emre Kelly

Posted on 04/20/2019 10:49:42 PM PDT by Monty22002

MELBOURNE, Fla. – A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule suffered an anomaly Saturday afternoon during a routine engine test firing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station , company and 45th Space Wing officials confirmed.

"On April 20, 2019, an anomaly occurred at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during the Dragon 2 static test fire," wing spokesman Jim Williams told Florida Today. "The anomaly was contained and there were no injuries." Florida Today photographer Craig Bailey, who was covering an event in nearby Cocoa Beach, captured an image of orange plumes rising from SpaceX facilities at the cape at around 3:30 p.m.

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KEYWORDS: elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; spacex
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To: Tallguy

Use new ones for crew, reuse for cargo.


41 posted on 04/21/2019 10:22:28 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: rktman

“BFRC”...Ha! I haven’t heard that term for a good long while. N2O4 is nasty stuff. The hydrazines will give you cancer if you even think about looking in their direction.


42 posted on 04/21/2019 11:14:56 AM PDT by stboz
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To: stboz

If you can smell, it’s too late. We used the term a lot during evac drill from 39 A/B. That’s what made me curious when I saw the pictures. Sure enough, MMH and N2O4.


43 posted on 04/21/2019 11:25:16 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: stboz
Looks like they used it this one time. ;^)

44 posted on 04/21/2019 3:26:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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