KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Engines ignited and a rocket lifted off here on Sunday, for the first time since the last space shuttle launch five and a half years ago. A Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corporation — SpaceX — was launched, quickly disappearing into a low cloud deck, with 5,500 pounds of supplies, experiments and other cargo headed to the International Space Station. The Dragon cargo capsule is to arrive at the station on Wednesday. A robotic arm will grab the capsule and take it to one of the docking ports. "All is looking great," Jessica Jensen, the director of Dragon mission management at SpaceX, said in a news conference after the launch. "We're not expecting any issues." SpaceX was again able to recover the booster stage. As the second stage ignited to push the cargo capsule to orbit, the booster turned around back toward land. Eight minutes after it left the ground, it set down on a landing site a few miles away. It was the eighth successful landing and the third on land. (The other landings occurred on floating platforms in the ocean.) The success was another step in the recovery of… Read full this story
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