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Space-X Continues Mission To Put Americans Back In Space

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Space-X is on a mission to put Americans back into space with an American-made space capsule. At 2:49 a.m. this morning, a Falcon 9 Rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The rocket had a dragon capsule with a life-sized test dummy, which is supposed to arrive at the International Space Station on Sunday.

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If this works, two humans will go in space later this year.

Since the space shuttle program ended in 2011, American Astronauts have been hitching rides on Russian Spacecrafts.

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