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SpaceX Dragon blasts off to International Space Station

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The beginning of the new deal era -- NASA.

Right it's decent round of hearings -- to -- international space.

The space station as.

Ours on our program shuttle -- it and now we can service it for a lot less that we can focus -- resources on doing.

Those harder things and going.

Beyond low earth orbit again.

He's -- instance falcon nine rocket propelling 1000 pounds of cargo into space.

Everything from food and spare parts to -- scientific experiments the dragon capsule dock with the space station early Wednesday morning.

-- and return to earth later this month with nearly 2000 pounds of cargo.

That's will be another first for private space -- with launching astronauts into space once again also on the arrives.

That's his plan we have set by 27 -- we believe we will be -- again from yes I'll write him Florida to.

It's basics.

Now a lot of commercial companies believe they can do it --