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.
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#manatees #Florida #stormdrains #SatelliteBeach As many as 19 manatees had got stuck in a storm drain in Florida and rescue workers of the Satellite Beach Fire Department along with a manatee-rescue team from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission had to work overtime to free them and return them to the Indian River Lagoon System. This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 25 February 2015.
In order to carry out this work, the rescuers had to bring in heavy earth-moving equipment to the Satellite Beach neighborhood, located on a barrier island on Florida's central Atlantic Coast near Cape Canaveral.
FWC Research Institute spokesman Brandon Basino has indicated that it is not clear exactly how the manatees became stuck, but noted that there was no grate on the storm drain. Moreover, during the winter months, the manatees usually sought out warm habitats. And then, of course, their unique properties of being curious.
Just before setting them free, the FWC biologists marked all the manatees on their backs with a grease pen. This non-toxic markers will allow the biologists to identify the rescued manatees as and when they check on their conditions.