SpaceX early Sunday launched its 33rd resupply mission to the International Space Station, sending up a Dragon capsule loaded with 2.5 tons of equipment and supplies along with an add-on thruster kit to help maintain the lab's altitude.

Perched atop a workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, commercial resupply mission 33 got underway with a sky-lighting launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:45 a.m. ET, climbing away on a northeasterly trajectory lined up with the space station's orbit.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying a cargo Dragon capsule loaded with more than 5,000 pounds of crew supplies, research equipment and other gear needed aboard the International Space Station. Spaceflight Now

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