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Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, left, and NASA deputy administrator Dava Newman speak to social media representatives at the spaceport's Press Site. The presentation took place the day of the scheduled launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the company's eighth commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station, or ISS. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 with a Dragon resupply spacecraft is scheduled for April 8, 2016 at 4:43 p.m. EDT. Dragon will bring up almost 7,000 pounds of supplies, such as new science experiments and equipment for technology research