Social media followers listen to NASA Social media coordinator Jason Townsend describe the SpaceX 2 Commercial Resupply Mission to the International Space Station.

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, social media followers, at right, listen to NASA Social media coordinator Jason Townsend, far left, describe the SpaceX 2 Commercial Resupply Mission to the International Space Station. Standing next to Townsend, is Bob Jacobs, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications.

Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft is planned for March 1, 2013, at 10:10 a.m. EST, from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Dragon will be making its third trip to the space station. It will carry supplies and experiments to the orbiting laboratory. The mission is the second of 12 SpaceX flights contracted by NASA to resupply the space station. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/spacex2-feature.html Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin