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06-29-2018, 01:11 AM
http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0dQ5tZqIvaOuzMq88BB2NA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/a55f93eb2c5424c157e154ca7fa949fb725514e9.jpg (https://www.yahoo.com/news/rockets-pushing-boundaries-space-travel-014510782.html)Friday morning at 5:42 am (0942 GMT), a rocket owned by the US company SpaceX will blast off from Florida carrying two and a half tons of gear from NASA, only to dock three days later and 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth at the International Space Station. It launched a NASA satellite into orbit two months ago, then landed back on Earth -- upright -- on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Canaveral. It flew a mission to the ISS in 2016.



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