Disney photographers capture SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch over Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Space Mountain at Disney World

Apr 23, 2021 in "Star Wars Galaxy's Edge"

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketlLaunch over Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Space Mountain

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketlLaunch over Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Space Mountain

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketlLaunch over Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Space Mountain
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketlLaunch over Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Space Mountain
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketlLaunch over Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Space Mountain
Posted: Friday April 23, 2021 9:42am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney photographers captured some fantastic images of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launch earlier this morning over Walt Disney World.

This first image by David Roark shows the Space X Falcon 9 rocket viewed from Star Wars Galaxy's Edge at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketlLaunch over Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Space Mountain
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketlLaunch over Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Space Mountain

This second shot by Kent Phillips shows Falcon 9 blasting off behind Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketlLaunch over Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Space Mountain
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketlLaunch over Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Space Mountain

Space X's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center just before 6am today, topped with a Crew Dragon capsule. Aboard were NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

This trip to the International Space Station is the third flight of the Crew Dragon capsule since May of last year

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