HoloLenses blown up en route to International Space Station

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Prior to Microsoft announcing its augmented-reality headset HoloLens as a potential Minecraft peripheral, NASA was already using it to help remote teams across earth and space better communicate. This weekend NASA was to ship a couple of units of the spiffy under development headset to the International Space Station. There was only one problem: The shuttle supplying the tech blew up.
Thankfully, it was an unmanned vessel and no one was hurt.
"The astronauts are safe aboard the station and have sufficient supplies for the next several months," NASA said in a statement about SpaceX CRS-7's untimely demise a mere 139 seconds into its journey. "We will work closely with SpaceX to understand what happened, fix the problem and return to flight."
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