a beautiful view of the grid fins slicing through the cloud layer on the way back to the Cape this evening, the fourth landing for this Falcon 9 booster, and the 100th launch overall for SpaceX.

Picture perfect mission, and SpaceX’s first polar-orbit launch from Florida.

Saocom 1B Launch – Earth Observation for Argentina

4 responses to “Fast & Furious”

  1. This is fake. ILM made it for a Spielberg movie. 😉

  2. Yup! Great image. I took screen shot of this too as it happend! Dynamic and exciting as it passed back through the clouds. Just like a scene any earlier hard core science fiction artist. Except now it’s real! Go Humans! Go Bots! Go SpaceX!

  3. I have some cool Apollo era and space shuttle era items for sale that I bought at the charles Bell aerospace auction 20 years ago Steve Jurvetson email me for photos: vcvdc@msn.com

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