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SpaceX Launches 12th Resupply Aircraft to ISS, Completes Successful Rocket Relanding

SpaceX Launches 12th Resupply Aircraft to ISS, Completes Successful Rocket Relanding
SpaceX launched its 12th resupply mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:31 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. Photo: NASA.

SpaceX successfully completed the re-landing of another rocket following the launch of its twelfth International Space Station (ISS) resupply aircraft on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 rocket launched at 12:31 p.m. Monday lifting off with a SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft carrying 6,400 pounds of equipment and supplies for research projects that is expected to reach the ISS by Wednesday.Following the launch, the SpaceX aircraft’s first phase booster rocket successfully relanded at the Cape Canaveral Air Force…

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