SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off as it heads for space carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Opening a new era in private space flight, the US company SpaceX became the first commercial outfit to launch its own craft toward the International Space Station. (Photo Source: chinanews.com)
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First commercial spacecraft to space station lifts off in U.S.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. private spaceflight company SpaceX launched an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, initiating the first flight of a commercial spacecraft to the orbiting outpost.
Atop the California-based company's own Falcon 9 rocket, the Dragon capsule rocketed into the sky from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Full story
