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SpaceX ISS resupply launch returns booster to Cape Canaveral

JUL 18, 2016
Physics Today

NPR : Earlier today SpaceX launched its next resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Not only did its Falcon 9 rocket successfully take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, but the rocket’s first-stage booster was returned intact to Earth and thus demonstrated the rocket’s potential reusability. As part of its two-ton cargo of supplies and gear, the Dragon spacecraft is also transporting an international docking adapter (IDA), or docking port. Once installed, the IDA will allow new spacecraft, including SpaceX’s Dragon and Boeing’s Starliner, to dock at the station.

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