This article was published on January 12, 2016

Check out SpaceX’s snazzy video on the Falcon9 landing


Check out SpaceX’s snazzy video on the Falcon9 landing

In December, SpaceX finally reached a successful landing of its Falcon9 rocket for the first time in 20 attempts. Ahead of the next mission — another attempt to land on water — the space exploration company is reveling a little in its success with a flashy 3-minute video showing the historic moment taking place.

The video walks through the launch and landing of the rocket, and the palpable excitement of SpaceX employees and onlookers at the launch.

Oh, hey Elon.

Elon

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The takeoff, like most of SpaceX’s attempts, went smoothly.

BlastOff

Space will never not be awesome. Look at the rocket in the Florida night sky!

RocketFlight

The rocket’s launch from its point of view.

Fire

Boosters, go!

Engine

Then it’s time for the hard part: landing.

Flower

Meanwhile, this girl can’t.

ThisGirl

And they nailed it!

landing2

The crowd goes wild!

Cheering

Let’s see it up close.

Landing1

Aw yiss.

Congrats, SpaceX.

“The Falcon has landed” | Recap of Falcon 9 launch and landing [YouTube]

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