After a last-minute aborted launch caused by a problem with the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX will give it another shot on Saturday, January 10. If successful, the rocket’s first stage engines would refire 3 times, guiding the 14-story portion of the Falcon 9 to land upright on a floating ocean platform. The launch would also propel the Dragon cargo ship toward the International Space Station. The only other US company able to send cargo to low-Earth orbit, Orbital Sciences, suffered a catastrophic rocket failure in October 2014.
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