Less than a minute after stage separation, the two halves of the rocket's nose cone fairing, both veterans of two earlier missions, fell away for parachute descents to capture netting aboard waiting recovery ships. William Harwood/CBS NewsTwo-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, the veteran first stage fell away, the single vacuum-rated Merlin engine powering the second stage fired up and the rocket continued its climb to space. The Falcon 9 has suffered two catastrophic failures, one in flight and one during pre-launch testing. Using a Falcon 9 rocket with a first stage making a record eighth flight, the mission got underway at 8:02 a.m. EST, lifting off from historic pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center atop a brilliant jet of flaming exhaust. The 229-foot-tall rocket, generating 1.7 million pounds of thrust from nine kerosene-burning Merlin engines, quickly climbed away from Florida's "Space Coast," arcing out over the Atlantic Ocean and fading from view as it powered its way out of the thick lower atmosphere.
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