
Cape Canaveral, Florida (CNN) — Friday’s test launch of the Falcon 9 rocket was “essentially a bullseye,” SpaceX officials said after the rocket successfully pushed past the earth’s atmosphere and deposited a mock-up of its Dragon space capsule in orbit.
The successful launch is the latest step toward commercial space ventures that could eventually ferry astronauts and cargo to the international space station….



I find it interesting that they’re able to have onboard video much longer than any of the NASA shuttle launches ever did