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SpaceX rocket lifts off for space station on first launch from NASA's Apollo 11 pad [i]For the first time since 2011 and the retirement of the space shuttle, a rocket on Sunday (Feb. 19) lifted off from NASA's Launch Pad 39A, the historic site in Florida where astronauts departed for the moon. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, loaded with 40 live mice and other research for the International Space Station, leapt off Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 9:39 a.m. EST (1539 GMT). About eight minutes later, as the Dragon cargo capsule flew into orbit, the Falcon 9's first stage landed at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, achieving SpaceX's eighth experimental propulsive landing (the third on land and the first of which during the day). The launch marked the beginning of a new chapter for the Apollo and shuttle complex.[/i]
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