SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday morning — and cause the rocket to fail 84 seconds into flight and explode shortly thereafter.can safely escape from a rocket that's not working correctly.into space: NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.SpaceX is about to do the unthinkable.
The 230-foot-tall vehicle is expected to heave itself off the ground between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. ET, but then suddenly shut down its engines about 84 seconds into flight. At that point, the Falcon 9 will be traveling nearly twice the speed of sound some 13 miles above Earth's surface. But if all goes according to plan, the Crew Dragon will escape to safety moments after the failure begins. , but NASA is excited to get on with the flight. That's because the spectacle is part of a highly orchestrated, human-free, and strenuous test of the Crew Dragon's launch escape or abort system.
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