SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket delivered satellites from the Cape Canaveral Air Force station on March 1, 2015.
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Falcon 9
Another view of Falcon 9, a two-stage rocket designed to carry the Dragon into orbit.
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February launch
The Falcon 9 launch in February 2015, SpaceX’s first deep space mission. The rocket carried the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite.
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Dragon
The SpaceX Dragon, a free-flying spacecraft designed to deliver cargo and people to orbiting stations and satellites in space. This photo shows the Dragon before it departed Earth in February 2015.
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The Dragon crew
The SpaceX team works on the Dragon, SpaceX’s “next-generation” rocket they’re creating to send into space. This photo was taken in January 2015 before a test flight.
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Dragon launch
The SpaceX Dragon and Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral in January 2015 and returned to Earth four and a half weeks later.
Dragon landing
The Dragon landed with a parachute splash off the coast of southern California.
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More rockets
A wide angle shot of the Falcon 9 and the SpaceX premises in Florida, before the rocket was launched in February 2015.
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Night launch
A night landscape view of the Falcon 9 when it launched in early 2015.
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Quite the view
Another awesome photo SpaceX released of one of the launches of Falcon 9, which left Earth just before sunset in early 2015.