Privately-owned space rocket blasts off in US

An unmanned, privately-owned Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo capsule blasted off from Cape Canaveral in the US at 02:35 CET on Monday. It is on a mission to resupply the International Space Station

NASA administrator, Charles Bolden, described this as "a critical event for NASA and the nation" as it returns space station cargo missions to US soil.

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