SpaceX launch excites Californians
Californians looked up at the sky as a luminous cloud lit up the night sky on Oct. 10 around 7:20 p.m. SpaceX, a private aerospace engineering company, successfully launched and landed a Falcon 9 rocket at the Vandenberg Air Force Base about 158 miles north of Los Angeles.
The company was founded in 2002 by CEO and Lead Designer Elon Musk. The website states, “SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.” According to ABC7, “(The rocket) had an Argentinian Earth-observation satellite aboard its Falcon 9 Rocket, and everything from the launch to deploying the satellite to landing the rocket happened within a 15 minute span.”
Residents all over Southern California posted videos and pictures of the spectacular sight on various social media platforms, SpaceX tweeted and confirmed that “Falcon 9 has landed — first West Coast land landing of an orbital class rocket booster.”
