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Elon Musk and SpaceX continue their goals toward commercial space travel I wonder what the in-flight movie will be I'm Jake a stern a kiss and this is 90 seconds on the verge SpaceX launched his third supply mission to the International Space Station this afternoon the Falcon 9 rocket and accompanying Dragon capsule took off from Cape Canaveral with the goal of rendezvous in with the space station on Sunday morning they'll launch give SpaceX a chance to test the next step in its plan for a reusable rocket once the Dragon capsule detaches the rocket will attempt to slow itself and make a controlled return to Earth but we fished out of the ocean they're used again to give you an idea of how expensive space exploration can be a NASA space shuttle launch cost around 450 million dollars per mission and a lot of that money goes toward building rockets that just crash into the ocean afterward and are damaged beyond repair but SpaceX has a chance to change that its launches cost about 56 million dollars and Elon Musk says that Ari's will rocket even cut that in half well the chance of today's rocket landing successfully isn't great it's put between about 30 and 40 percent SpaceX and NASA will still be breaking new ground on the International Space Station's the Dragon capsule headed for the space station is carrying red romaine lettuce and radishes these are being kept inside an experimental plant growth chamber it's part of a test project meant to give astronauts a source of fresh food of course all this is just phase one for spacex musts ultimate goal is to make commercial space travel not just reality but also an affordable one from one SpaceX check out the verge coming up you're never to add more fibers to astronaut diet NASA sends 40 tons of Metamucil to the International Space Station