SpaceX managed another line in the history book today as a refurbished Dragon cargo ship set off to revisit the International Space Station (ISS). Part of the Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-11), the Dragon lifted off atop a Falcon 9 booster at 5:07 pm EDT (21:07 GMT) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This marks the first time that the same unmanned spacecraft has returned to the station.
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