Image: Liftoff of SpaceX resupply mission to the space station

Image: Liftoff of SpaceX resupply mission to the space station
Credit: NASA/Jim Grossman

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Liftoff was at 4:47 a.m. EST on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015.

The commercial resupply mission will deliver 3,700 pounds of , technology demonstrations and supplies, including critical materials to support 256 science and research investigations on the space station.

SpaceX cargo ship reaches International Space Station: phys.org/news/2015-01-spacex-c … rnational-space.html

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