What happened on Saturday during a test of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is still under investigation. But a series of setbacks already had forced NASA to purchase two more seats on Russian spacecraft to make sure the U.S. has an American astronaut on board the international space station — the orbiting laboratory that has cost American taxpayers about $100 billion. SpaceX failure dims NASA’s hope for a quick U.S. return to launching its own astronauts into space
Source: Washington Post Tech
