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An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon capsule sits on launch pad 40 after a scrubbed launch attempt, at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida April 13, 2015. REUTERS/Scott Audette

The mission of the SpaceX has been delayed due to the weather. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, which was supposed to be launched on April 13, Monday, had to stay in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as a stormy weather was predicted prior to the mission. The mission will have to be reset for Tuesday at 4:10 pm EDT, according to the SpaceX Twitter account.

SpaceX is a private space exploration company, founded by Elon Musk, which aims to send an uncrewed cargo spacecraft called Dragon to the International Space Station. As preparation, the SpaceX plans to hold a rocket upright onto an autonomous spaceport drone ship in the Atlantic ocean by guiding its bottom stage. According to NASA, space shuttle boosters usually fall back into the ocean; other say such booster rockets explodes in the Earth’s atmosphere.

With the impossibility linked to the objectives of SpaceX, Musk has this to say in the SpaceX website, “If one can figure out how to effectively reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to space will be reduced by as much as a factor of a hundred. A fully reusable vehicle has never been done before. That really is the fundamental breakthrough needed to revolutionize access to space.” Clearly, they want to cut down on the costs of future space explorations.

SpaceX previously said that the their mission has a 50% success rate. They first launch a Falcon 9 rocket on the drone ship in January but it exploded due to an angle miss. But the company is determined to master landing at sea so that they can one day land rockets on the ground successfully.

If the space launch becomes successful, the top part of the rocket will carry the Dragon and separate itself from the rest of the rocket to fly straight into the orbit. Once the Dragon is docked up onto the space station, the astronauts have to unload more than 4,300 pounds worth of supplies, research materials and an espresso machine called ISSpresso that will enable the astronauts to make coffee and tea. They will in turn stuff the Dragon with trash and other materials to be sent back to Earth. After five days, the mission controllers will guide the Dragon back to the Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California.

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