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On Thursday evening, shortly after the space station announced its

April 15, 2018 by Devin Jones

On Thursday evening, shortly after the space station announced its return to orbit, SpaceX announced that the launch of its first Falcon 9 rocket had been delayed for approximately 20 minutes. The rocket and its associated docking system would have been activated after the next scheduled launch, and SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon 9A launch vehicles would have arrived in time to deliver the first ever live camera images of the moon.

In the hours between launching with the Falcon 9 and the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX has been busy with a series of launch missions, some of which have been successful.

"We've been busy from launch for most of this month," SpaceX's first Falcon 9 rocket engineer, Craig Smith, told Space.com.

"We're currently taking the time to get our engineering group together and build a set to go. We'll be able to do more launches this year, and we are going to have more launch vehicles, we're going to have more launch vehicles," he said.

This morning at 12:45am EST, SpaceX's first rocket launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CASS) on the final leg of its historic journey from its previous Falcon 9 to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9's first stage launched a second stage, which lifted off.

The first stage of the Falcon 9 is currently in the launch bay at the South Pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and is scheduled to be ready for its final launch next weekend.