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Watching the launch of a space mission is pretty cool.

Watching a rocket launch into space from a seat inside a plane, with a bird’s-eye-view of the moment, is way cooler.

Admittedly, the man who managed to see SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lift off from his seat on a United Airlines flight said it totally topped any in-flight-entertainment, never mind anything he’d seen on the ground.

On Saturday, November 26, the Falcon 9 took off into space from Kennedy Space Center in Florida for NASA’s SpaceX 26th commercial resupply services mission.

The rocket, a partially reusable medium-lift launch vehicle that can carry cargo and crew into Earth’s orbit, was on a mission to take 3 500 kilograms of supplies to the crewed International Space Station (ISS).

It was also taking equipment upgrades and science material meant to make the ISS more robust.

Nick Leimbach caught the launch from his plane seat while passing over Florida:

One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

Aboard @United Airlines 220 flying over Cape Canaveral as a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off. pic.twitter.com/klSqmbfPHt

— Nick Leimbach (@nleimbach) November 26, 2022

Leimbach lives close to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California and says he loves the “rejuvenation of the US space program,” per Live And Let Fly.

While he sees many cool things from aeroplanes, this view topped them all. Someone else seemed to have captured the moment from the same vantage point:

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch being viewed from the flight’s cockpit 😍 @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/uCaCL6Jiuu

— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) November 28, 2022

It stuns even from the ground:

Just so happened to be on a cruise ship at Port Canaveral and was able to have a great view of the #SpaceX #Falcon9 launch. pic.twitter.com/G6XIXUsrLg

— Joyce 💙⚡️🏒 (@jpnuc) November 26, 2022

Falcon 9 launches Dragon to the @space_station pic.twitter.com/yvh5C9U5AV

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 26, 2022

Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/FcVOep82eo

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 26, 2022

Per SciTech Daily, the science experiments on the way to the ISS are a study to grow dwarf tomatoes to help create a continuous fresh-food production system in space, as well as an experiment that tests an on-demand method to create specific quantities of key nutrients.

This video explains more about that:

[sources:liveandletsfly&scitechdaily]