SpaceX Poised to Launch Cargo From Historic NASA Pad

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It was also the blastoff point for sending American space shuttles into orbit, until the shuttle program came to an end in 2011.



SpaceX, headed by billionaire Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, managed to negotiate a lease with NASA for the launchpad in 2013, beating out its competitor Blue Origin, which is headed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.



"I can tell you it is an extra special launch tomorrow, for sure. Maybe extra nerve-wracking," she added.



Helium leak

SpaceX has endured two costly disasters in the past two years - a launchpad blast that destroyed a rocket and its satellite payload in September, and a June 2015 explosion after liftoff that obliterated a Dragon cargo ship packed with goods bound for the space station.



The Hawthorne, California-based company has already made one successful return to flight in January of this year, from Vandenberg Air Force base in California.



Saturday's planned launch was left somewhat in question, after SpaceX discovered a "very small" leak in the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on Friday, Musk tweeted.



"I believe we found it," Shotwell said, adding the problem involved a helium leak and that engineers were still working to figure out the root cause.





"As far as I know right now, we are going to proceed with the count."



If Saturday's launch - meant to carry 5,000 pounds (2,267 kilograms) of gear into orbit - is delayed, another opportunity opens up Sunday morning.



The weather forecast for Saturday's attempt was 70 percent favorable, officials said Friday.



Landing attempt

Following the launch, SpaceX plans to try landing the booster on solid ground at a different part of Cape Canaveral.



If successful, the upright touchdown of the Falcon 9's first stage would mark the third time SpaceX has managed to stick a landing on solid ground.



Other such landings have taken place on floating ocean platforms, as the company perfects its techniques of powering costly rocket parts back to land instead of jettisoning them in the ocean after a single use.



The Dragon will spend two days in orbit before arriving at the space station early Monday.



The cargo resupply mission, known as CRS-10, is the 10th of up to 20 planned trips to the space station as part of a contract between SpaceX and NASA.

Where does the president spend President's Day weekend? At Mar-a-Lago, of course, President Trump's own private club and National Historic Landmark in Palm Beach, Fla. The exception is a Saturday trip to Orlando Melbourne International Airport, where Trump will host an old-fashioned airport rally, the first overt political rally of his presidency. The president is likely to talk about his early accomplishments as president and his plans for the future. But sometimes his speeches go off topic.

SpaceX’s attempts to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center



Thick clouds and rain could challenge SpaceX’s planned Saturday morning first attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center. Liftoff of the rocket and an unmanned Dragon capsule carrying more than 5,000 pounds of International Space Station supplies is scheduled for 10:01 a.m., the day’s only launch opportunity. SpaceX previously has launched from pad 40 just down the coast on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. That pad was badly damaged when a Falcon 9 blew up during a Sept. 1 test.



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