SpaceX Falcon 9 First Launch From KSC VAB Roof (ZOOMED OUT View)

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Author:spacearium
Published:2010-06-05 01:15:32

This is a "wide-angle" zoomed out view o' t' SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's first launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on June 4, 2010. Ya scallywag! I was fortunate enough t' have access t' t' roof o' Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Buildin' from where I shot this video. This is one o' two videos I took. This was taken with a motionless camera, matey, zoomed out, lookin' at t' launch pad as t' Falcon vehicle lifted off. Falcon-9, ya bilge rat, built by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., flew nearly perfectly. After a 9-minute trip t' orbit, t' rocket placed a summy mockup o' t' Dragona capsule spacecraft into low Earth orbit. T' flight results were : nominal shutdown and orbit was almost exactly 250km. Begad! Telemetry showed essentially a bullseye: ~0.2% on perigee and ~1% on apogee. Go SpaceX! Go Falcon-9!

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