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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket builds on the success of its smaller Falcon 1 rocket. Here, the fifth Falcon 1 rocket launches the RazakSat communications satellite for Malaysia from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on July 13, 2009 EDT.

Don't Look Back

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A camera on fifth SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket reveals the limb of the Earth as the rocket hauls Malaysia's RazakSAT satellite to orbit on July 13, 2009.

Must I Paint You a Picture?

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An illustration of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, FL.

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