Launch Failure Leaves SpaceX in a Longer-Term Bind

The failure of a SpaceX mission to resupply the International Space Station will have serious implications not only for the company's civilian and commercial business, but also its ambitions to crack into the military market.

SpaceX just failed in its third attempt to make history. On Sunday morning it tried and failed to retrieve one of its Falcon 9 rockets, the CRS-7, after a launch, which would have made it the first reusable rocket ever. But just a few 

A pair of the devices is scheduled to launch on SpaceX's seventh commercial resupply mission to the station on June 28,” read an official press release. However, the HoloLens headsets loaded onto to the Falcon 9 rocket, as part of the SpaceX Commercial 

Just before a NASA press conference to talk about this CRS-7 mission, SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that there had been “an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank.” 

LATEST: Watch the NASA press conference above, which should begin no earlier than 12:30 PM ET, to learn more about what happened during today's failed CRS-7 mission launch. Here's a video of the explosion of the