SpaceX launches space station supplies from Cape Canaveral

Falcon 9 launched at 4:30 p.m. Monday

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Monday with a spacecraft filled with supplies and hardware for the International Space Station.

The rocket and a previously flown Dragon spacecraft lifted off just in time at 4:30 p.m., ahead of some potentially bad weather.

After a successful launch, the Dragon spacecraft, packed with thousands of pounds of supplies, cargo and science experiments, is hurtling toward the International Space Station for a Wednesday arrival.

Monday's cargo resupply mission is SpaceX's 14th.

The Dragon capsule, which previously launched and returned from the space station, is carrying many micro-gravity experiments designed to improve life in space and on Earth.

Click here to read about five experiments headed to the International Space Station.

CRS-14 kicks off a busy month for the Space Coast: An Atlas V rocket is scheduled to take flight on April 12 with an Air Force payload; a Falcon 9 rocket will take NASA's planet-hunting TESS spacecraft to orbit on April 16; and another Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch Bangladesh's first geostationary satellite sometime in late April, Florida Today reported.


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