SpaceX / Dragon CRS-12 Launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida this morning

[jdandy]

SpaceX conducted its first flight from the US Eastern Range following July’s scheduled maintenance stand down on Monday, with its Falcon 9 resuming operations to deliver a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.


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[PHC1]

It's always fun to watch SpaceX launches. What I am curious about is the few different cameras/camera angles that always show the earth below the rocket. One can notice if paying attention that in some of these shots the earth appears to have No Curvature. We all know that wide angle lenses cause a barrel distortion (spherizing effect) but I am not aware of any lenses that would do the opposite, another words make a sphere flat. At 4:07 minute mark one can see what I am talking about. Anyone have an answer? Really evident at the 8:44 min mark

[GaryProtein]

Big Applause

The landing was just like they did it in the 1950's Sci-Fi flicks

[Canonicus]

It's so impressive to see that first stage stick the landing...never tire of seeing that!

[PHC1]

With some 2,700 satellites and enormous amount of debris floating at tremendous speeds in orbit around earth, I can't imagine how they keep track of all of them when they do orbit insertion of these rockets and especially carrying astronauts. Here is a picture representation of the current orbital stuff.