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We're about four minutes away from the two outer rocket boosters -- they're falling down now. at some point we'll see the glow of their engines as they reverse thrust and land over at the landing zone. the center core will continue out towards the atlantic to try to land on the drone ship. never before in the history of space travel have three rockets blasted off from a launch pad delivering the pay load, what appears to be flawlessly and landing all three rockets back on land to then be recycled and reused for future launches. still to come for spacex, their bfr, big rocket, that will have a ...

It's going -- >> shepard: can the cameras see it? >> it's going to be two sonic booms. you can hear the crowd and the electricity. they're still going. it's like the super bowl. this is a big deal for that company, a big deal for other space companies, this is proving that can be done. the fuel on board, kerosene, the liquid oxygen. it was loud, it was thunderous. as the rocket rose above earth and cape canaveral, the percussion was like seven drummers just -- it was incredible. the two rocket boosters descending right now. that will be another double sonic boom spectacle for what is a multipl...

This is a live look at cape canaveral in florida. spacex is about to launch a new rocket and it's a very big deal. this is a falcon heavy rocket. it is right now the most powerful rocket on the planet times two. this is set to be the biggest and brightest and most impressive rocket launch since the space shuttles retired and spacex reports it to be the future of human space travel. this rocket has 28 merlin engines, five million pounds of thrust. the equivalent of strapping 18 747s together and igniting them. the fuel on board, equivalent to four middle pounds of tnt. one pay load on board. a ...

For billions of years unless it blows up on as sent. phil keating. it's a big day. >> humongous day, shep, for spacex and beyond spacex, for all human space travel in the future. if this rocket does successfully launch, heads off to space, deploys the tesla electric sports car, sending it out to the earth-mars orbit and all three rocket stages come back down to earth, two of them on the landing zone and the center score burning an additional minute and that would come down into the floating drone ship in the atlantic ocean. if spacex can accomplish all this, this opens the doors. number 1, put...

There's the launch pad. those were live pictures coming from space, not from nasa, not from the government. from a private company that is planning to transform space travel and phil, again, transform the space coast, i suppose. >> absolutely. more companies are coming, more jobs are happening here. they're all high-paying, high tech engineering-type jobs. the local economy has soon that boost over the past two years. this really opens the door, this launch proves to be a successful as it appears it has gone. it opens the door for bigger pay loads. satellites that are launched up by satellite ...