De Falcon 9 bracht een satelliet van Argentinië in een baan om de aarde.

Foto: SpaceX

Residents described the expanding nebula, containing two active rocket stages and multiple shock waves as "exciting," "heart-stopping," "riveting," and "like an alien invasion!"

But this was no alien, SpaceX said. All the technology came from the Earth labs of SpaceX, which launched the rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base. 

"It was a Falcon 9 rocket launch," says Behyar Bakhshandeh, who photographed the exhaust hovering in the sky above Carlsbad, CA. 
 

(Credit @_TomCross_) pic.twitter.com/ZsRRVy2iDS

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 8 oktober 2018

Falcon has landed pic.twitter.com/joqphUs1AO

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 8 oktober 2018

My view of the @SpaceX launch from @NBCLA. pic.twitter.com/iW3x7IT0Qo

— David Biggar (@DavidNBCLA) 8 oktober 2018

And finally - a stack of all the images - you can see so much detail here https://t.co/r6pHbPsqq5 pic.twitter.com/9nLwAH3oZQ

— Doug Ellison (@doug_ellison) 8 oktober 2018

rocket launch from mom’s backyard in Norco, CA @spann pic.twitter.com/jZs0reQrmJ

— Chelsey???? (@chelsco_) 8 oktober 2018

Truly amazing! From Newport Beach tonight. #SpaceX #Falcon9 #rocket #launch #vandenberg @spann @spaceX @KTLA pic.twitter.com/v5drAsFPxx

— Suz4 (@mamarazzi4) 8 oktober 2018

The Falcon 9 propelled an Argentine environmental satellite into orbit. The rocket's previously flown first stage then flipped around and returned to Vandenberg, chalking up SpaceX's first West Coast landing.

The booster put on a spectacular show as it descended tail first, deploying four legs and firing up one of its nine engines to slow for touchdown in a cloud of fiery exhaust.

This marked SpaceX’s 30th landing of a first stage, as well as the first time a Falcon 9 rocket touched down on the West Coast.


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