SpaceX Falcon 9 First Launch Reaches Orbit (View From KSC VAB Roof)

From the VAB roof, this is video I shot of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's first launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on June 4, 2010. I was fortunate enough to have access to the roof of Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building from where I shot this video. This is one of two videos I took. This one is more tightly focused on the rocket and follows Falcon as it climbs into the sky on its way to space.

Falcon-9, built by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., flew nearly perfectly. After a 9-minute trip to orbit, the rocket placed a summy mockup of the Dragona capsule spacecraft into low Earth orbit. The flight results were : nominal shutdown and orbit was almost exactly 250km. Telemetry showed essentially a bullseye: ~0.2% on perigee and ~1% on apogee.

Go SpaceX! Go Falcon-9!

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[spacearium]

This was one of the more rewarding missions to cover. Good work SpaceX.

[moneyman10k]

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[MrAlexHuff]

They're planning on colonizing on mars, can't wait till that happens.

[sylvainraillard]

superbe... et quel bruit ;-)

[werogers49]

I helped build this rocket. Thanks for the great video and especially the audio. The nine engines sound great.

[Ferrariman601]

These guys will put a man into space sooner rather than later. Who needs NASA?

[leokimvideo]

nice footage and love the sound, it's something you have to experience for real at some time in your life, raw power that only rockets can display