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Command center in los angeles. 9800 kilometers in the air. 1,000 kilometers per hour. 115 kilometers in the air, i'm sorry. stage one and stage two separation take place successfully. this looks like a success so far? >> i don't think it could have gone any better, do you? everything down to the money, down to the second has been right on the money for them. >> farce we can tell. we're not looking at the numbers, but the vision really speaks for itself. it lifted off beautifully. we're supposed to see the side boosters land in about another four minutes or so. >> 7:58 into the flight we expect...

>> t plus 30 seconds if you can hear me over the cheering, "falcon heavy" heading to space on our test flight, building on the history of "saturn 5 apollo," returning to interplanetary mission. we're getting ready to throttle down. [ cheering ] >> supersocvehicle supersonic. >> you heard the callout. vehicle is supersonic. side boosters are now throttling back up to full power. >> reached maximum dynamic pressure. >> we're past max q, the period of maximum loads on the vehicle. next up we'll be waiting for the

Side boosters to begin to throttle down prior to boosting engine cutoff and separation, 2:30 into flight. trajectory looks good on the "falcon heavy." >> side boosters' landing legs are deployed. >> watch that landing. there we go, tom, we showed the landing, we showed them the takeoff. i could watch that over and over and over and over again. and you know what, it happened so easily that we're tempted to say that that stuff's easy. it's not. that is really, really hard. and today we just watched history. >> i think you're absolutely right, and i was just going to ask steve that same question,...

The final countdown is running. when the countdown goes from one to zero of course the tension is really high because everything depends on all systems starting cleanly first the main station then the side boosters and the entire system but that's only the start today's mission would last about forty minutes until we have both satellites parked in the right place. two days earlier at the say headquarters in paris. offices here where he's coordinating upcoming space missions. to get my lunch if you don't mind. thank you very much.

Off, side boosters that were supposed to come down not at sea but on land, boy, did they come down beautifully. right? and you could see it before it happened. the two pictures on the bottom here are camera shots from each. side boosters. side from the upper left shows you the view from cape canaveral as they come back to earth. now watch. watch this. >> and the falcons have landed. >> reusable booster rockets. incredible. you see them both standing there. both of these have flown in previous launches, and if today's perfect landing is