SpaceX rocket blasts off for International Space Station - video

Monday, 08 Oct 2012

# International Space Station

The first commercially contracted mission to re-supply the International Space Station blasts off on Monday from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft should arrive at the ISS on Wednesday. It will be joined to one of the station's ports using a robotic arm and astronauts will unload its supplies of food, clothing and science experiments

Monday, 08 Oct 2012

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