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SpaceX Goes Two-for-Two on Launches This Year

The company has launched a Falcon 9 rocket from a historic launchpad at Cape Canaveral and landed its first stage upright on solid ground.
Source: Joe Skipper / Reuters

Thirteen seconds before liftoff, a panicked voice on the livestream said, “hold, hold, hold!”

And so SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch on Saturday morning was scrubbed in the final seconds “out of an abundance of caution,” operators said, because of a potential problem in the rocket’s upper stage.

“Better to wait.

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