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so I've seen a couple launches in person before but I've never gotten to visit the rocket before it went up so it's crazy to think that just in a couple of hours this place is going to be filled with a lot of a lot of flames we're here at Cape Canaveral Florida home of NASA's Kennedy Space Center we've come to see SpaceX launch one of its Falcon 9 rocket but I'll be honest I came here to watch it land we all know the story SpaceX has been trying to land its Rockets after launching them into space to save on manufacturing costs they've had some explosive misses and some overwhelming success and I followed all of these but only through a tiny computer screen so I thought it was time to see one with my own two eyes we traveled all the way from New York to Florida for SpaceX CRS nine that was the company's ninth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station but before we saw the launch and landing we paid a quick visit to the rocket on top of this rocket is SpaceX's dragon cargo capsule it's filled with nearly 5,000 pounds of goodies and science experiments that need to get to the International Space Station that includes the first DNA sequencer to be used in space and a shiny new international docking adaptor that adaptor will be added to the outside of the station allowing future private spacecraft to automatically dock with the ISS and eventually SpaceX is own vehicles we'll be using that adapter there assuring us out but we'll be seeing the rocket later all stations one minute you see and DC on countdown verify f9 and dragon Ark startup token let's start up dragon isn't startup t-minus ten nine eight seven six five four three two one the doctor government - $30 integration your sirness what coming back you can see it oh my god here go oh my goodness oh look oh my god it looks like it's right ahead of us Oh just do you want it's your bear to shut down next one will be some stage want landing burn has started here we go here I go oh my god oh I got him LT one fell tonight has landed landing operators moving a procedure 11 . 100 recovery in LZ one amen oh that huge noise came from a bunch of sonic booms the Falcon 9 enters the Earth's atmosphere going faster than the speed of sound creating shockwaves and we don't hear until the rocket reaches the ground oh my god that shook me I've never seen anything like that that is gonna that that is something everybody's got to see as a space reporter I write about spaceflight everyday but there's something fundamentally different about seeing one of these events in person I still can't seem to put into words what it was like to see that rocket land and then to feel the sonic boom go right through me it was so intense even locals in the area reported it to 911 schools it all was spacex hopes these landings become just as routine as the launches themselves after is all over hans conics men one of the VPS for spacex said this one day people will pay less attention to this and that's actually the day when we succeed but for now it's still really awesome I just take it home I'm taking an obligatory space egg selfie [Laughter]