When a privately built rocket aborted its launch attempt at the very last second on Saturday, it was likely a familiar sight to the booster's builders: The California-based company SpaceX.

SpaceX's unmanned Falcon 9 rocket aborted its launch attempt this morning just as the countdown reached T minus 0.5 seconds and the rocket's nine main engines ignited, apparently due to an unexpectedly high engine pressure reading. The rocket will now have to wait until at least Tuesday to attempt to launch SpaceX's first robotic Dragon space capsule flight to the International Space Station.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has closed the book on the Space Shuttle program, which begs the question: what is the focal point now for space exploration? Is there a still an ongoing role for the International Space Station’s (ISS) to support NASA’s space research and exploration?

Why ask these questions? Without the capability to send United States (US) astronauts to the station, how can the space station remain a realistic platform for space science?

Astronomical body NASA continues to develop spacecrafts and launch space missions to help the Earth understand the sun and the humanity threats as sun solar storms.

The ability of predicting sun solar storms storms and knowing what humanity can do will lessen the effects and damage to earth.To understand the sun and its effects on Earth, NASA continues to conduct missions including Spacecrafts STERO and Solar Dynamic Observatory. The two are positioned to view of 90 percent of the solar surface.