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Kennedy Space Center Monitors Operations, Air After SpaceX Falcon 9 Explosion

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Kennedy Space Center Monitors Operations, Air After SpaceX Falcon 9 Explosion

14:48 GMT 01.09.2016 (Updated: 11:11 GMT 06.08.2022)

© Flickr / NASA KennedyThis artist’s concept shows Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as it will appear for the launch of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX is modifying the launch pad to host Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles

This artist’s concept shows Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as it will appear for the launch of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX is modifying the launch pad to host Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles - Sputnik International

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) emergency operations center at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida is monitoring both the situation and the air quality as a result of the SpaceX rocket Falcon 9's explosion on Thursday morning.

Smoke rising on the launch site of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida - Sputnik International

SpaceX Falcon 9 Explodes at Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral, Florida

1 September 2016, 13:29 GMT

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad at their facility at Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida.

"NASA: Kennedy Space Center Emergency Operations Center monitoring situation and standing by to assist if required; air being monitored," NBC News reported.

SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred Thursday morning.

Falcon 9 was scheduled to take off on Saturday to deliver Facebook's first satellite into orbit.