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Credit & Copyright: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Explanation:
Clouds are white but the sky is dark in this
snapshot of Launch
Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
The dramatic daytime sky is partly due to the black and white photo
captured with a digital camera at
near-infrared wavelengths.
Taken at 3:22
p.m. EDT Saturday May 30
the launch was pretty dramatic too as a Falcon 9 rocket
lofted a Crew Dragon spacecrat
towards low-Earth orbit.
Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were onboard, the
first crew
launched
from a United States spaceport
since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.
A few minutes after launch, the Falcon 9 first stage returned
to land on Of Course I Still Love You (that's an
autonomous
spaceport drone ship ...)
patiently waiting off the Florida coast.
The two astronauts guided their craft to a successfull docking with the
International Space StationÁs Harmony module at
10:16 a.m. EDT Sunday May
31.
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