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New photos of SpaceX rockets launching into orbit

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    Falcon9 Rocket

    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.

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    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.

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Lyndsey Gilpin

Lyndsey Gilpin is a former Staff Writer for TechRepublic, covering sustainability and entrepreneurship. She's co-author of the book Follow the Geeks.