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Rockets. >> oh, now we see them coming down perfectly, perfectly. right, right. >> look at that. >> wow. >> there you see, there it's getting ready to land. >> you're witnessing one of the greatest engineering accomplishments we have seen in decades. >> they're landing vertically. they're both down. both touched down smoothly eight minutes into the flight. >> that was pretty cool. while spice x has done this before, it's never so with two rockets simultaneously. while the central booster was lost, the landing of these two side boosters brings the company closer to its goal of reusable rockets ...

Space along with a space suit wearing mannequin named star man where it will be delivered into orbit around the sun for thousands of years. what mission control was most anxious for was the re-entry and landing of the two side booster rockets. >> oh, now we see them coming down perfectly, perfectly. right, right. >> look at that. >> wow. >> there you see, there it's getting ready to land. >> you're witnessing one of the greatest engineering accomplishments we have seen in decades. >> they're landing vertically. they're both down. both touched down smoothly eight minutes into the flight. >> tha...

Side boosters are now throttling back up to full power. we're passed the period of maximum load on the vehicle. next up, we'll be waiting for the side boosters to begin to throttle down, prior to booster engine cut-off and separation. 2:30 into flight. the trajectory looks good on the falcon heavy. >> that is never going to grow old. in case you missed it the first time yesterday afternoon, that was history being made. thanks to spacex's successful falcon heavy rocket and recovery of two of the boosters, we're in a new age of space exploration. that is a version of the falcon 9 rocket that is ...

The way to mars. not entering the orbit or landing on mars but the tesla orbit will be there for who knows how long? for the eons with the dummy looking into the void. >> and leroy, i remember standing down there at cape canaveral and watching the final space shuttle take off and being thrilled to see it. but also, sad and nostalgic. here as an astronaut, a former astronaut, what are the next major steps like today? in space exploration? >> this is huge. a huge deal. it looks like it has entered the parking orbit. we saw the landing of the two side boosters. we don't know if the third booster ...

[ cheers and applause ] >> t plus 30 seconds if you can hear me over the cheering. falcon heavy on our test flying building on history of apollo, returning interplanetary mission. getting ready to throttle down. [ cheers and applause ] >> you heard the callout. vehicle is supersonic. side boosters are now throttling back up to full power. we are past max q, period of