SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon cargo capsule successfully launched into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday night despite the failure of one of the Falcon 9’s nine “Merlin” engines, as SpaceX founder and chief technology officer Elon Musk confirmed to NASAWatch. As Musk said in a statement:
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