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SpaceX Launch Successful

WE HAVE LIFTOFF

First private spacecraft to leave U.S. space station.

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John Raoux / AP Photo

It’s official: Dragon has launched. The private, unmanned space shuttle built by a California’s SpaceX successfully launched early Tuesday morning from Cape Canaveral, Fla.—the first mission by a spacecraft not commissioned by the government.

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