Uploaded February 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Video Credit: SpaceX
Mission Updates: spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx10
It was over five years ago that the flames of an ascending rocket last graced a Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad when the Space Shuttle lifted off on its final voyage in 2011. Kennedy’s historic Launch Complex 39 returned to rocket launch operations on Sunday with a most impressive liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket – ushering in a new era of commercial launch operations from the storied space center.
Falcon 9 lifted off from the southernmost of the two former Shuttle Pads at 14:39 UTC on Sunday, taking to the skies over a cloudy Space Coast to lift the tenth operational Dragon spacecraft into orbit for a critical supply delivery to the International Space Station. The 65-meter tall rocket swung to a north-easterly departure path and fired its first stage for the first two minutes and 21 seconds before the single-engine second stage took over for a nearly seven-minute burn to loft the Dragon into orbit.
Video Credit: SpaceX
Mission Updates: spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx10
It was over five years ago that the flames of an ascending rocket last graced a Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad when the Space Shuttle lifted off on its final voyage in 2011. Kennedy’s historic Launch Complex 39 returned to rocket launch operations on Sunday with a most impressive liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket – ushering in a new era of commercial launch operations from the storied space center.
Falcon 9 lifted off from the southernmost of the two former Shuttle Pads at 14:39 UTC on Sunday, taking to the skies over a cloudy Space Coast to lift the tenth operational Dragon spacecraft into orbit for a critical supply delivery to the International Space Station. The 65-meter tall rocket swung to a north-easterly departure path and fired its first stage for the first two minutes and 21 seconds before the single-engine second stage took over for a nearly seven-minute burn to loft the Dragon into orbit.
