Missed launch of the SpaceX ISScargo mission or want to see it again? Watch it here! The SpaceX CRS-5 Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 4:47 a.m. EST.
According to Reuters, an unmanned Space Exploration Technologies Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Saturday carrying a cargo capsule for the International Space Station, then turned around to attempt an unprecedented landing on earth. Saturday's launch was SpaceX's 14th Falcon 9 flight and the fifth of 12 planned station resupply missions under its $1.6 billion contract with NASA.