I still am amused by the number of people that think that because the Space Shuttles are no longer launching out of Cape Canaveral that nothing takes off here. Nothing could be further from the truth!
Tomorrow, April 8th, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a Dragon space capsule for a resupply mission to the International Space Station ISS. At this point in time the weather looks great, but, if Mother Natures chooses not to cooperate the date could be postponed.
The really cool thing about this launch is that SpaceX (Elon Musk's company) will attempt to land this rocket for reuse. You may remember that a little over a year ago in January of 2015 another attempt was made at landing a rocket for reuse and that ended in failure.
Being a huge proponent of recycling, I personally am all for reusing the rockets. There is far to much space garbage in the Earth's orbit as it is. It's time for revolutionaries like Elon Musk to work on reusing massive rockets and anything else they can think of!
The launch window for tomorrow opens at 4:43pm EDT from the Cape Canaveral Space Station. NASA says that there is an 80% favorable chance of the launch taking place tomorrow. Let's wish them luck not only on the resuppy mission, but also on successfully landing that rocket!
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