SpaceX is poised today to send supplies to astronauts on the International Space Station aboard a rocket booster and a cargo ship that have both flown before.
The liftoff of the recycled Falcon 9 rocket and unmanned Dragon cargo ship is scheduled for 4:30 pm (2030 GMT) from a NASA launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
"This is the second resupply mission for NASA where we are not only flying a flight-proven booster but we are also flying a Dragon that has already been to the International Space Station," SpaceX's Jessica Jensen, director of Dragon mission management, told reporters Sunday.
"This booster launched the CRS-12 mission back in August of last year, and this Dragon flew the CRS-8 mission to the space station in April of 2016."
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