Dragon fails to keep its date with the International Space Station

The Dragon cargo spaceship failed to keep its date with the International Space Station. It was carrying 4,000 pounds (1,800-Kg) of gear to the space station and among the items was a large parking space. It was an International Docking Adaptor which was designed to make it easier for an array of commercial crew spacecraft to dock at the orbiting lab in the future.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 28 June 2015.

This failure of Dragon is attributed to explosion of the unmanned SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket – it happened within minutes after launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida and before the first stage could separate.
The rocket was carrying the Dragon cargo spacecraft with supplies and equipment meant for the ISS. It was the 7th cargo mission of SpaceX – it has a contact for 12 missions. Now, in view of this incident, another Dragon would have to be readied for dispatch of the items required by the ISS.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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