In an unforeseen disaster, the SpaceX rocket headed for the International Space Station with considerable cargo, exploded about 3 minutes after blast off. The rocket known as Falcon9 was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station last month on the 28th. Thankfully it was an unmanned rocket and no human lives were lost, still the effect on the company is likely to be substantial. This was the seventh contracted resupply flight that SpaceX was undertaking on behalf of NASA to restock the International Space Station.

The Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that they took these missions very seriously, and obviously this was a huge blow to SpaceX. The company is investigating the rocket failure and will not be launching any new rockets till it completes the investigation and finds out the reason for the disaster. Musk added that their goal was to have the most reliable rockets ever as soon they were even planning to have manned flights.

Charles Bolden who is the agency administrative from NASA said that the failure of Falcon9 should not deter the company from its space flight program. He said that SpaceX had demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in its first six cargo resupply launches. This is one science project that has NASA’s full support as they pull their act together.