SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch, as seen through the window of a nearby airplane. (Reddit.com)

SpaceX was finally able to get their Falcon 9 rocket launched Friday night, despite having to scrub the previous four attempts, and one lucky passenger on an airplane was able to snap a photo as the spacecraft sped away from the Earth’s surface.

The picture captures the rocket launch, on which a 12,000-pound broadcast satellite was being brought into orbit, says Popular Science.

The photographer, a passenger on a flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Newark, posted the photo on reddit.

The designed course for the Falcon 9 rocket.

(SpaceX)

“The pilot made an announcement over the speakers saying that we were gonna slow down so that we could see it up close,” they mentioned. “Pretty much everyone was glued to the windows. After he said we had to speed up again everyone was clapping. It was amazing.”

The photo shows what is likely the two different stages of the Falcon 9’s launch sequence.

The first stage, the jagged path seen in the bottom right-hand corner, uses thrust greater than five 747s at full power to boost the rocket out of the Earth’s atmosphere. The second stage, the short white line toward the top of the image, is powered by a single vacuum engine once the weight from the first stage is shed, according to SpaceX.

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The initial boosters that the spacecraft typically shed are normally left to splash into the ocean to never be recovered. SpaceX, however, thinks they could reuse the boosters and has worked relentlessly to safely land the first stage boosters in order to reuse them and limit the cost of spaceflight.

Friday’s Falcon 9 landing came close, but ultimately failed after the rocket’s first stage traveled higher than planned, causing the rocket to reenter too quickly and land too hard on the droneship, SpaceX CEO and Lead Designer Elon Musk explained.

Yet, while SpaceX comes ever so close to making spaceflight more efficient, we can sit back and enjoy the view.

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