The vessel left the ground 31 minutes after noon on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida. Researchers stationed on the ISS, a habitable artificial satellite orbiting Earth, will receive 6,000 tons of supplies, groceries, an espresso maker, a 3-D printer and candy bars, Wired reports. Monday’s launch was the twelfth resupply mission to the ISS, Sputnik International noted.
Part of the Falcon 9 successfully landed back at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, according to SpaceX.