The test version of the capsule made by the Elon musk the tech man fails the test done in Florida.
The Capsule Elon Musk's SpaceX suffered an anomaly in one of its Crew Dragon capsules while conducting engine tests at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday, the company said.
"The initial tests completed successfully but the final test resulted in an anomaly on the test stand," the company said in a statement.
The issue was earlier reported by Florida Today, which said orange smoke was seen rising above SpaceX's facilities, and that the anomaly was contained with no injuries.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon, also referred to as Dragon 2, is designed to take humans to the International Space Station and successfully flew for the first time in March. The company was planning to launch a crewed version of the spacecraft no earlier than July but was also planning an in-flight abort test, or a demonstration of its life-saving abort capabilities, sometime before then.
"NASA has been notified about the results of the SpaceX Static Fire Test and the anomaly that occurred during the final test," its administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a tweet.
"This is why we test. We will learn, make the necessary adjustments and safely move forward with our Commercial Crew Program," he added.
NASA has awarded SpaceX and Boeing Co. a total of $6.8 billion to build competing for rocket and capsule systems to launch astronauts into orbit from American soil.
In March, the privately owned SpaceX successfully completed its mission of sending an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth, a mission seen as crucial to NASA's plans to resume human space flight from U.S. soil.
SpaceX's first crewed test flight is slated to launch in July with U.S. astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken. SpaceX's timeline to return crews to the ISS from U.S. soil will now likely be modified as the investigation into the incident continues
