SpaceX Makes Successful Launch to ISS After One-Day Delay

A SpaceX Dragon craft made a successful launch on February 19 carrying supplies to the International Space Station. The rocket’s first stage booster touched down after the launch, the company’s eighth successful vertical booster landing.

The launch was scheduled for February 18, but was delayed to allow for testing of a steering piston in one of the rocket’s upper stages, Elon Musk, SpaceX’s chief executive said.

The rocket blasted off from launch complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The pad was once used to launch NASA’s Apollo moon program but hadn’t been in operation since the discontinuation of the space shuttle program. Credit: NASA via Storyful