SpaceX Dragon Capsule Spacecraft Arrives At Cape Canaveral For NASA COTS-2 Demonstration Launch

The latest Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon capsule
arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Oct. 23.
The spacecraft will be placed on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
on Space Launch Complex-40 for the company's next demonstration
test flight for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.

SpaceX is one of two companies under contract with NASA to take
cargo to the International Space Station. NASA is working with
SpaceX to combine its last two demonstration flights, and if
approved, the Falcon 9 rocket would launch the Dragon capsule
to the orbiting laboratory for a docking within the next several months.

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