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November 29, 2022

Incredible Bird’s-Eye View Of The Falcon 9 Rocket Launch [Videos]

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.

[imagesource: Twitter / SpaceX]

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:

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:

It stuns even from the ground:

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]