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SpaceX launch scrubbed with 13 seconds to go

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A planned SpaceX launch Saturday was scrubbed 13 seconds before it was to lift off.

The new window for the mission, which will send cargo and hundreds of science experiments to the International Space Station, will open at 9:38 a.m. Sunday.

The voyage will eventually mark a return to launch activity for Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

That was the site of the rocket launch that sent the first U.S. astronauts to the moon. It was also the site of the last manned mission to leave U.S. soil, in 2011.

The launch’s scrub of the unmanned Falcon 9 rocket threw off well-laid plans for some who had gathered for a viewing.

“It’s disappointing,” said Robbie Haney of Grayslake, Ill., who is in Central Florida visiting friends in Tampa Bay.

The launch was set to be the first from Florida for SpaceX since a rocket exploded at Launch Complex 40 on Sept. 1.


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