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Credit & Copyright: Jen Scott
Explanation:
Leaving
planet Earth
for a moment, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket arced
into the early evening sky last Sunday at 7:27 pm EST.
This 3 minute 20 second exposure traces the launch streak
over Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.
The rocket carried four astronauts en route to
the International Space Station on the first flight of a NASA-certified
commercial
human spacecraft system.
Dubbed Resilience, the astronauts' Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docked
with the orbital outpost one day later, on Monday, November 16.
At the conclusion of their six-month stay on the ISS,
the Crew-1 astronauts
will use their spacecraft return to Earth.
Of course about 9 minutes after launch the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage
returned to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean on autonomous
spaceport drone ship
Just Read
The Instructions.
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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