SpaceX cargo ship scrapped docking at space station

First commercial rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center's historic pad 39A where Apollo missions started the voyage to the moon. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, en route to the International Space Station. The Dragon cargo ship was scheduled to dock with the space station Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, but it was pushed back to Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. MELBOURNE, Fla. -- An unmanned SpaceX Dragon cargo ship aborted a planned Wednesday morning rendezvous with the International Space Station and will try again Thursday, NASA said. At 3:25 a.m. EST, less than three hours before the Dragon was to be captured by a robotic arm on the station, Dragon computers automatically rescheduled the approach after its navigation systems recognized something wrong in data about the station's location.