Space X Launch - 390 Miles Away

SpaceX’s CRS-35 launch on Tuesday, October 13, at 6:33 a.m. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, 390 miles away, carrying an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.

It was a delivery mission: roughly 6,300 pounds of supplies, scientific experiments, and new solar arrays to help power the station. Dragon arrived and docked on October 15.

The enormous “jellyfish” was the rocket’s exhaust plume catching sunlight high above Earth while you and Richard were still in darkness down on the farm. As the exhaust expanded in the thin upper atmosphere, it spread into that luminous cloud. The predawn timing made it especially striking—and visible across several eastern states.

The rocket headed northeast along the Atlantic coast, which helped give you that view from Georgia. You were watching a space-station supply run turn into a sunrise light show hundreds of miles away.