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.
Using a spacecraft with a record stage flight enabled a solid committee of humans to walk in and detonate.
( z0 enable :ARG0 ( z1 use :ARG1 ( z2 spacecraft :ARG0-of ( z3 fly :ARG2 ( z4 stage ) :mod ( z5 record ) ) ) ) :ARG1 ( z6 and :op ( z7 walk :ARG0 ( z8 committee :ARG1-of ( z9 solid ) :cxnsistof ( z10 human ) ) :ARG2 ( z11 in ) ) :op ( z12 detonate :ARG0 z8 ) ) )
(z0 / enable-01
    :ARG0 (z1 / use-01
              :ARG1 (z2 / spacecraft
                        :ARG0-of (z3 / fly-01
                                     :ARG2 (z4 / stage)
                                     :mod (z5 / record))))
    :ARG1 (z6 / and
              :op1 (z7 / walk-01
                       :ARG0 (z8 / committee
                                 :ARG1-of (z9 / solid-02)
                                 :consist-of (z10 / human))
                       :ARG2 (z11 / in))
              :op2 (z12 / detonate-01
                        :ARG0 z8)))
Using a spacecraft with a record stage flight enabled a solid committee of humans to walk in and detonate .
z1 :ARG1 z2
z3 :ARG2 z4
z3 :mod z5
z2 :ARG0-of z3
z0 :ARG0 z1
z8 :ARG1-of z9
z8 :consist-of z10
z7 :ARG0 z8
z7 :ARG2 z11
z6 :op1 z7
z0 :ARG1 z6
z6 :op2 z12
z12 :ARG0 z8