NASA shares incredible timelapse video from the SpaceX Crew-2 launch
Daily MailNASA has shared a remarkable nine-second timelapse video of the successful SpaceX Crew-2 rocket launch from Friday. SpaceX Crew-2 launched on Friday just before 11am BST from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. 'As the Crew-2 capsule disappears over the horizon, the landing plume of the returning first stage of the Falcon 9 descending toward the SpaceX barge in the Atlantic Ocean can be seen,' NASA says. Images shows, from left, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, inside the capsule at launch pad at Launch Complex 39A ahead of the Crew-2 mission, April 23, 2021 They arrived at the International Space Station at about 10:10 BST on Saturday, where they were warmly welcomed by the existing crew. The SpaceX Crew Dragon, and its four astronauts, is seen safely docked in this impressive picture from Nasa TV Friday's mission became the first SpaceX launch to reuse both a capsule and Falcon 9 from previous launches.
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