Uploaded July 2016 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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Video Credit: SpaceX
Mission Updates: spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx9
It was a spectacle with two acts at Florida's Space Coast Sunday night when SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lit up the night skies twice, first when thundering into orbit with the Dragon SpX-9 cargo ship and again when the rocket's first stage fell back toward a powered landing on a flat pad south of the launch site.