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Credit & Copyright: Eric Holland
Explanation:
What's happening in the sky?
The pre-dawn sky first seemed relatively serene yesterday morning over
Indian Harbor Beach in
Florida,
USA.
But then it lit up with a
rocket launch.
Just to the north,
NASA's
SpaceX Crew-2 Mission blasted into space aboard a powerful
Falcon 9 rocket.
The featured time-lapse video
--
compressing 12-minutes into 8-seconds --
shows the bright launch plume starting on the far left.
The rocket rises into an increasingly
thin
atmosphere,
causing its plume to spread out just as it is lit by the
rising Sun.
As the
Crew-2
capsule disappears over the horizon, the landing plume of the
returning first stage of the Falcon 9 descending toward
the SpaceX
barge
in the
Atlantic Ocean can be
seen.
Up in space, the
Endeavour crew capsule
is expected to dock with the International Space Station
(ISS) this morning, delivering four astronauts.
The Crew-2 astronauts join
Expedition 65 to help conduct, among other tasks,
drug
tests using
tissue chips -- small
microfluidic chips that simulate human
organs --
that run rapidly in ISS's
microgravity.
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NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: rocket - launch
Publications with words: rocket - launch
See also:
- APOD: 2025 February 17 Á SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California
- APOD: 2025 January 5 Á Rocket Launch as Seen from the International Space Station
- Rocket Engine Fireplace
- Sky Full of SARs
- APOD: 2024 March 12 Á A Galaxy Shaped Rocket Exhaust Spiral
- Falcon Heavy Boostback Burn
- APOD: 2024 January 2 Á Rocket Transits Rippling Moon