SpaceX cargo ship blasts off from historic 39A Nasa launchpad

Miami

SPACEX on Sunday blasted off its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the unmanned Dragon cargo ship, packed with food and supplies for the six astronauts living at the International Space Station.

The white rocket soared into the cloudy, gray skies over Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1438 GMT.

The mission was the first to take off from Nasa's historic launchpad 39A, the origin of the pioneering US spaceflights that took astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the space shuttle missions that ran f…