The next launch on the Space Coast is just a couple weeks away. It's a cargo run to the International Space Station. And this mission is a series of firsts.
We got up close with the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo craft full of 7,000 pounds of NASA supplies, science equipment and research, ready to blast off for the ISS soon.
It's called the Deke Slayton, named for the original Mercury astronaut and pioneer of the first privately-funded rocket.
All the work is being done in Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, where past planetary probes, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Orion capsule have been readied for launches.
But it's the first time an ISS-bound craft has been worked on inside it.
"It's important we re-start cargo deliveries to the ISS," said Mark Shugg, NASA launch site integration manager.
This launch also marks the return to flight mission for commercial company Orbital Sciences. On October 28, 2014, its cargo ship filled with supplies was lost when their Antares rocket exploded shortly after liftoff from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Not long after, Orbital chose United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket as its substitute vehicle until they get back to flying themselves.
It marks the first time this type of rocket launches a cargo ship to the ISS, and the first time Orbital will launch from Florida.
This also marks the first time cargo is headed to the ISS from American soil since SpaceX's Falcon 9 explosion this past spring.
This current launch is set for Thursday, Dec. 3.