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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket arrives at the SpaceX Falcon Hangar at Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The two-stage rocket will launch the company's Dragon spacecraft on the upcoming SpaceX CRS-2 mission. The flight will be the second commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX. NASA has contracted for a total of 12 commercial resupply flights from SpaceX and eight from the Orbital Sciences Corp. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann