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1st LD: SpaceX launches ISS resupply mission from historic moonshot pad

Xinhua, February 19, 2017 Adjust font size:

U.S. space firm SpaceX launched its 10th cargo mission to the International Space Station on Saturday morning from U.S. space agency NASA's historic moon pad for the first time.

A Falcon 9 lifted off on time at about 09:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT) from U.S. space agency NASA's historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first time, NASA TV showed.

The launch is the first from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) since the final flight of the space shuttle fleet in July 2011. LC-39A was best known as the launch site for the Apollo 11 mission, which sent the first humans to the surface of the moon, as well as numerous space shuttle missions. Endit