Spectacular visuals in the sky after SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch, first West Coast rocket landing
Residents described the expanding nebula, containing two active rocket stages and multiple shock waves as "exciting," "heart-stopping," "riveting," and "like an alien invasion!"
But this was no alien, SpaceX said. All the technology came from the Earth labs of SpaceX, which launched the rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base.
"It was a Falcon 9 rocket launch," says Behyar Bakhshandeh, who photographed the exhaust hovering in the sky above Carlsbad, CA.
(Credit @_TomCross_) pic.twitter.com/ZsRRVy2iDS
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 8, 2018
Falcon has landed pic.twitter.com/joqphUs1AO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 8, 2018
My view of the @SpaceX launch from @NBCLA. pic.twitter.com/iW3x7IT0Qo
— David Biggar (@DavidNBCLA) October 8, 2018
And finally – a stack of all the images – you can see so much detail here https://t.co/r6pHbPsqq5 pic.twitter.com/9nLwAH3oZQ
— Doug Ellison (@doug_ellison) October 8, 2018
rocket launch from mom’s backyard in Norco, CA @spann pic.twitter.com/jZs0reQrmJ
— Chelsey (@chelsco_) October 8, 2018
Truly amazing! From Newport Beach tonight. #SpaceX #Falcon9 #rocket #launch #vandenberg @spann @spaceX @KTLA pic.twitter.com/v5drAsFPxx
— Suz4 (@mamarazzi4) October 8, 2018
The Falcon 9 propelled an Argentine environmental satellite into orbit. The rocket's previously flown first stage then flipped around and returned to Vandenberg, chalking up SpaceX's first West Coast landing.
The booster put on a spectacular show as it descended tail first, deploying four legs and firing up one of its nine engines to slow for touchdown in a cloud of fiery exhaust.
This marked SpaceX’s 30th landing of a first stage, as well as the first time a Falcon 9 rocket touched down on the West Coast.
Featured image credit: Elon Musk, SpaceX
That was a very boring movie that you snakes at NASA did. I have seen old star trek movies show us a bitter lie then that, but at least they said that it was fictional and not truth you snakes. It is truly two spherical angels in this picture, but if you want the to keep believeing the lie then I hope you like the movie!