 It was bound to happen eventually, but it's such bad luck for it to happen right now. Let's talk about today what this launch failure means for SpaceX and for the International Space Station, and what the plan is right now moving forward. This is your space pod for June 30th, 2015. I'm talking a course about the Falcon 9 launch failure, which was launching a Dragon cargo vessel for SpaceX's 7th commercial resupply services mission for NASA and the International Space Station. Now we know for sure that during the launch before the first stage was about to shut down and separate from the upper stage, there was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank and the rocket exploded and everything was lost. Some people think that possibly the Dragon capsule may have flown away from the rocket before it exploded, but as of right now the Dragon capsule has not been recovered. In fact, there hasn't been anything publicly stated as if any debris has been recovered yet. Everyone at SpaceX is working very hard to determine what the cause of this failure was, but so far they still are not sure why this event occurred. However, it's probably safe to say that the Falcon 9 rocket is grounded until they figure out why this problem occurred and how they can fix the problem to make sure it doesn't happen again to the best of their ability. Nobody knows how long the Falcon 9 is going to be grounded for, but I'm hoping that because all of their hardware is made in-house, they'll be able to find and hopefully fix the problem fairly quickly, quickly at least in rocket terms. Some of the other payloads that were on this mission was testing one of Microsoft's new HoloLens, which is actually a really cool idea to have holographic computing and I would definitely love to have one when it's in like the 6th or 7th generation. But probably the biggest high profile payload on this mission that was lost was one of the new international docking adapters, which was going to be converting one of the old PMA adapters or pressurized mating adapters that were used in the old shuttle era to be converting it into a new international docking system standard. And with that, it would enable both of the new commercial crew vehicles to be able to dock to the International Space Station at both of these adapters, which are currently connected to the Harmony module. At a press conference held after the launch failure, one of the executives from Boeing did confirm that they had enough spare parts left over to reconstruct the international docking adapter that was lost. They need two of them and the second one is actually still in the process of being built right now. And that one was supposed to be launching on SpaceX's 9th commercial resupply services mission, but of course all of SpaceX's launches are going to be pushed back until further notice until they get this problem solved. The thing that's so devastating about this is this is three cargo vessels that have failed in the past eight months. Orbital ATK's Cygnus and Antares, Russia's Progress Vehicle on the Soyuz, and now SpaceX is dragging on their Falcon 9. And on Friday, Russia is going to be launching a Progress vessel on the Soyuz U. This is not the Soyuz 2.1A that was the cause of the failure on the last launch of the Progress, so hopefully everything will go smoothly with that and the space station will have enough supplies to continue on. NASA has been very quick to reassure that the space station is safe, the crew members are safe, and they have enough supplies to keep going for a long time. And also a lot of their freezers that have the sensitive experiments, a lot of that was empty just recently when the commercial resupply services number six mission from SpaceX returned a bunch of cargo back down to Earth and sensitive experiments. So that thankfully is one good thing that was done recently. Later on July 23rd, there's going to be a Soyuz FG rocket launching with a Soyuz capsule carrying three more astronauts for the International Space Station for the next expedition crew. And then scheduled for around August 16th, Japan is going to be launching an H2B rocket with their HTV cargo vessel, so hopefully they'll be able to resupply the space station with the upcoming Progress vessel as well as the Japanese HTV vessel. So what an awesome time for Japan to have their launches. In September there's going to be another Soyuz crew launch at the beginning of the month and then later in the month there's going to be another Progress vessel. In November there's going to be an upgraded Progress cargo ship that's going to be launching on the Soyuz 2.1 and hopefully everything will go well with that and they won't have the same problems that they did the last time they launched that rocket. In December we're going to see Orbital ATK Cygnus vessel launching again, but on an Atlas V rocket instead and hopefully that mission will also go off without a hitch. And then finally rounding out the year there's going to be one final Soyuz crew launch in December. I'm certainly hoping that SpaceX is able to figure out the problem and get the Falcon 9 back to returning to flight so that they can continue a couple more missions this year. But anyway let me know what you guys think, whether or not you think that they'll be able to recover from this quickly or if this is going to deal a really fatal blow to the commercial crew and cargo program. So there's lots of senators and Congress people that would be very happy to slash the program. So I don't even want to think about that but let me know what you guys think. If you're willing and able to support us this show is completely crowd funded and thank you to everyone who's been contributing to our Patreon campaign and if you're interested in helping us out please visit patreon.com slash space pod to enable more space news pods like this. Anyway thank you very much for watching, hopefully you know a little more today than you did yesterday, thanks to tomorrow. My name is Michael Clark and I will see you guys in the future.