Successful Launch: Dragon Cargo Capsule.
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SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station tonight with a couple of precedent-setting payloads on opposite ends of the size spectrum: a 5-foot-wide docking adapter, which was built by Boeing to accommodate future commercial space taxis; and the first DNA sequencer destined for use in space, which is about the size of a candy bar.
Then, the first stage of the rocket successfully fired its engines again to manoeuvre its way back to land on solid ground at Cape Canaveral.
The return of the rocket caused a sonic boom, rattling buildings for miles around the landing site and prompting a flood of calls to the emergency line 9-1-1, according to local media reports.
Cargo en routeThe almost 5,000 pounds (2,300 kilograms) of cargo on board includes an worldwide docking adaptor which will function as a parking spot for commercial space taxis in the coming years.
A second docking ring is due to be delivered in 2017, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, said.
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The first worldwide docking adapters in the cargo will allow USA commercial spacecraft to dock to the station when transporting American astronauts in the near future. The Dragon and its latest shipment are expected on Wednesday at the 250 mile high outpost. He said all the cargo is precious, but really wants this docking port "up there safe and sound".
SpaceX is owned and operated by Elon Musk, who also founded Tesla Motors, and the company aims to lower the cost of space travel by reusing rocket parts instead of jettisoning them into the ocean. Seven minutes after launch, the first stage booster began its descent back through Earth's atmosphere, illuminating Florida's Space Coast's night sky in an orange glow.
Employees at company headquarters in Hawthorne, California, cheered loudly and applauded when the 15-storey booster touched down smoothly.
"Good launch, good landing, Dragon is on its way", NASA mission commentator George Diller said. The boosters normally are ditched at sea. This was the second time it managed a ground landing and the fifth time it recovered one of its rockets post-launch. Another port cobbled together from spare parts will replace the one lost in the June 2015 launch accident. It will depart the space station on August 29, carrying over 3,300 pounds of science, hardware, crew supplies and spacewalk tools back to Earth.
The Soyuz U booster rocket was carrying a Progress MS-03/64P cargo ship and launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:41 P.M. EDT as the rocket released the spacecraft shorty after nine minutes into flight.
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