Photo credit: NASA/Rick Wetherington, Tim Powers and Tim Terry
After a three day delay resulting from a last-second shutdown of Saturday morning's launch attempt, the
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was
launched on a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday morning at 3:44 AM EDT on its historic demonstration flight for commercial cargo delivery to the International Space Station (ISS). If several preliminary demonstration maneuvers are successfully completed, the Dragon spacecraft will rendezvous with and be grappled and docked to the ISS on Friday morning.
The events will be watched intently around the world and in Washington, DC where a many space-minded people are gathering for the
Global Space Exploration Conference and this year's
International Space Development Conference.
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