Updated 11:50 am ET, Sunday, May 20
A mission intended to complete the first-ever orbital docking of a privately-owned, unmanned spacecraft to the International Space Station was aborted at the last half-second before launch early Saturday, due to engine problems.The company behind the launch, SpaceX, of Hawthorne, California, was seeking to make history by launching its own Falcon 9 rocket carrying its unmanned Dragon cargo capsule, loaded with 1,200 lbs. of supplies, to the International Space Station, where the Dragon would have linked up with the space station and delivered the non-critical supplies to astronauts currently on board.
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