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Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies (more commonly known as SpaceX) launched the twelfth Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-12) mission to the International Space Station on August 14, 2017 at 12: 31 p.m. EDT (16:31 GMT). The flight got underway from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A and saw some 6,400 lbs (2,903 kg) worth of experiments and other cargo ferried to the orbiting laboratory. This was the ninth mission overall to be launched from LC-39A by SpaceX and the 11th mission overall that the company had conducted in the first eight months of 2017. Photos courtesy of Mike Howard, Mike Deep and Michael Seeley of We Report Space
