SpaceX Completes Falcon 9 Launch Dress Rehearsal

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) said it successfully completed a rehearsal for a scheduled April demonstration mission in which it will launch its Dragon cargo capsule to the international space station. The March 1 test of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket included "the full countdown procedures for the upcoming test flight," company spokeswoman Kirstin Grantham said in a prepared statement. "We ran down the countdown clock to a planned abort at T - 5 seconds at 12:18 p.m. eastern." Grantham said the test went "well," and that SpaceX will spend the next few days analyzing the data gathered at the pad.