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SpaceX Rocket Spotted Over Bergen County SpaceX Rocket Spotted Over Bergen County
SpaceX Rocket Spotted Over Bergen County No, it wasn't a UFO. That was a SpaceX rocket you saw early Tuesday, Sept. 10. Falcon 9 launched its Polaris Dawn rocket into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:23 a.m. Daily Voice readers captured footage of the rocket from Hackensack and Westwood, NJ (see Instagram reel below). Others shared videos of the rocket over Pennsylvania, Maryland, NYC, and more. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daily Voice NJ (@dailyvoicenewjersey) Dawn jellyfish of Polaris Dawn lights up the skies over the Susquehanna River! pic.twi…
SpaceX Launch Baffles East Coast SpaceX Launch Baffles East Coast
SpaceX Launch Baffles East Coast What some first thought was a meteor making its way up the East Coast turned out to be Elon Musk's SpaceX. The Falcon 9 rocket sent Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida just after 7:30 p.m., according to a news release. Footage of the rocket was captured about 30 minutes later in Washington DC, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. This is what a @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Florida looks like in New Hampshire pic.twitter.com/0JIcjjN3hH — drewsview…
SpaceX Rocket's Historic Launch Engineered By Leonia HS Grad SpaceX Rocket's Historic Launch Engineered By Leonia HS Grad
SpaceX Rocket's Historic Launch Engineered By Leonia HS Grad A New Jersey native played an integral role in the recent launch of the NASA/SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Sam DiMaggio, a 1985 graduate of Leonia High School, is principal dynamics engineer on the SpaceX project. The sophisticated rocket's May 30 flight from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., carried its first-ever crew to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. DiMaggio joined SpaceX in 2000 and was a designer on the initial Falcon 1 launch vehicle, the world's first privately-developed liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit in 2008. He received his bachelor…