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Photos: Falcon 9 breaks apart en route to ISS

June 28, 2015 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket broke apart just after launch on a commercial resupply run to the International Space Station. Here are a few images from NASA TV’s launch broadcast.

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