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SpaceX supply mission to International Space Station delayed

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The launch date for a SpaceX mission to carry cargo to the International Space Station has been pushed back.

A Falcon 9 rocket plans to launch a Dragon capsule carrying supplies, experiments and other materials to the space laboratory at 4:22 a.m. on April 30.

The mission had previously been scheduled to send the rocket up on April 26.

NASA used its Twitter account to announce the change of plans for the launch, which will take off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

This will be the 17th time SpaceX has launched a cargo mission to the space station.

The company is coming off the successful launch of a Saudi Arabian satellite on its behemoth Falcon Heavy rocket earlier this month.

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