SpaceX CRS-1 launch. View of the SpaceX CRS-1 mission lifting off. Built by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), this was NASA's first Comme

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SpaceX CRS-1 launch. View of the SpaceX CRS-1 mission lifting off. Built by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), this was NASA's first Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) mission to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX CRS-1 is an important step towards making America's microgravity research program self-sufficient by providing a way to deliver and return significant amounts of cargo to and from the orbiting laboratory on the ISS. Photographed at Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA, on 8th October 2012.

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