Image: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral
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TODAY   |  October 08, 2012

SpaceX brings special delivery to space station

An unmanned and privately-owned rocket and cargo capsule launched from Cape Canaveral and is headed to the international space station with some 882 pounds of food, clothing and other scientific supplies. It’s the first supplies run for California-based SpaceX. TODAY’s Natalie Morales reports.

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>>> the international space station is getting a special delivery from the u.s., an unmanned privately owned rocket and cargo capsule launched sunday night bringing some 882 pounds of food, clothing and other scientific supplies to the space station . perhaps the most anticipated item in the dragon capsule, a freezer containing chocolate vanilla swirl ice cream . nasa has turned to the private sector to supply the space station since the retirement of the space shuttle program last year.