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SpaceX pencilled in a liftoff window at 7.48am GMT (2.48am EST) from the Kennedy Space Center’s pad 39A.
Pad 39A is the exact same launch pad astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins took on the monumental Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
Space agency NASA said ahead of the launch: “SpaceX will launch a crew capable Dragon, known as Crew Dragon, on a test mission to the International Space Station.
“There will be no crew aboard, but the Dragon will dock autonomously to the station.
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