Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, has lifted its Falcon 9 reusable rocket into space from an Apollo-era launchpad -- a day after it failed to do so.
The rocket was supposed to take off at 15:01 GMT on Saturday, but the launch was delayed until 14:39 GMT on Sunday after the countdown stopped 13 seconds before takeoff, due to an issue in the second-stage engine.
The first stage of the rocket returned to Earth and landed safely. It's Falcon 9's most famous feature.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket lands on the ground on February 19, 2017. /Still image from SpaceX's live stream
The rocket was carrying a Dragon capsule loaded with about 2,500 kilograms of supplies and science experiments for the International Space Station (ISS), a 100 billion-US dollar research laboratory flying about 400 kilometers above Earth.
The Dragon capsule is SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's latest ambition.
After bringing supplies to ISS for nearly five years, a new version of Dragon will try to bring humans into space in 2018, as Musk announced on his Twitter profile Saturday.
