SpaceX launched its unmanned Dragon cargo capsule from Florida on Friday morning, starting the company’s second mission NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station.
The Dragon, carried by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, is due to dock with the station on Saturday. It’s carrying 1,268 pounds of supplies for the crew and its experiments, NASA says.
The mission is the California company’s second of a planned 12 resupply missions under a contract with NASA.
