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Old April 29th 19, 03:13 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule destroyed in abort motor ground test

JF Mezei wrote on Sun, 28 Apr 2019
15:54:17 -0400:

Have no idea if this is legit of not.

video on the Dragon "anomaly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6whBllkTkuU

At about 55 second mark, includes phone video from futuremartian97
which allegedly shows the spaceX Dragon2 abort test. In it, it is pretty
clear the capsule goes kablouey big time.


Uh, no. There is no 'abort test'. The abort test is what they were
working their way toward several months from now.


(On youtube, you can use . and , to go frame by frame (. = forward, , =
backward).

There is not enough detail in those explosion frames to know if this
video is legit or not.

IF legit, this video shows capsule explosion happening before exhaust is
seen out of engines.


Which doesn't tell you anything at all.


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