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April 12, 2019 12:41 pm PDT

All three SpaceX Falcon Heavy Boosters landing

I always find there's a surreal quality to footage of SpaceX's self-landing rockets. It's the "living in the future" moment for my reptile brain, irrespective of what it really means for mankind or where it truly sits in the spectrum of discovery and progress.

Three at once:

SpaceX launched the companys Falcon Heavy rocket on its inaugural commercial mission on Thursday evening. This was the second flight for Falcon Heavy, which became the most powerful rocket in use in the world after SpaceXs successful test flight in February 2018. That launch was purely demonstration Thursday represents the first revenue-generating flight of Falcon Heavy. Falcon Heavy launched from SpaceXs launchpad at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Built out of three of the companys Falcon 9 rockets, Falcon Heavys three cores stand side by side to create a 27-engine colossus. Together, those engines create about 5.1 million pounds of thrust.

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