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SpaceX rocket explodes on Florida launchpad

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The explosion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on September 1, 2016, sent smoke billowing over the Cape Canaveral skyline, as seen from a webcam at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. 

NASA Telescience Lab 

By Helen Thompson

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