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What had just happened. as i said before this is an unmanned mission. you'll hear now the announcer speak for the first time. >> and we appear to have had a launch vehicle failure. >> there is little elt we know at this point. as the engineers try to find out what has happened. elon musk the ceo of spacex tweeted the following. he says falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown. we'll provide more info as soon as we review the data. let's get to miles o'brien on the phone. miles, you have seen a video along with the rest of us. what do you see from it? what do you take ...

And just shook like crazy the whole way until the first stage shutdown. and then suddenly it cutoff. you went from 4.5g's to zero. >> i felt like i was being catapulted through the instrument panel and instinctively threw my hand out. and the second stage cut in and bango my hand went back into my helmet. i noticed a slash across the helmet. they will see the slash and i am going to catch some grief over this. well, when i finally collected all of the helmets from the others, each one had a slash across it. joy and then it starts in the second stage and it gets real smooth from then on. 30, 42...