'Lifetime phenomenon': Passengers witness SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch from plane window

As SpaceX conducted its milestone 200th orbital mission Friday, passengers seated on a commercial plane flying past Cape Canaveral in Florida witnessed  SpaceX rocket trailing in sky. footage shared by  TikTok user @chefpinkpr known by name Nelito, a flight attendant, depicted landmark sighting. “While working for my flight we witnessed this once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon!” wrote flight attendant in caption of video that is now viral on social media. visuals caught SpaceX rocket launching from  vantage point of space station into sky. 

“My plane flew by Cape Canaveral and caught SpaceX Falcon 9 launch!” caption to footage re. 

Users swarmed footage to describe launch as "phenomenal" “awesome” and “privileged” to watch among or reactions. “Oh re it goes, smoke's billowing, wow," one said in comments. “Lies and gentlemen, we have to lift off," a pilot joked in comments section. “That was awesome!” one or said. “That pilot waited his whole life to say ‘lies and gentlemen we have a liftoff’" one or commenter said. “This is unbelievable… What are chances of this?” anor comment re. A user expressed wonder at sight, saying, “we watched launch nearby, saw your plane and said “wow view y must have.”

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 for telecom company SES 

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:48 p.m. EST (2248 GMT) on Friday. It remains unclear if visual caught same rocket's liftoff. first stage of rocket landed safely on a SpaceX drone ship in Atlantic Ocean just under nine minutes after liftoff. launch of  two satellites for telecom company SES was  200th mission of a SpaceX booster and eighth flight of Elon Musk's SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

Four previous flights have alrey been launched to  International Space Station for NASA — two crewed and two uncrewed, according to SpaceX's description of liftoff. aerospace firm also launched private Japanese Hakuto-R moon lander on Sunday, December 11 ahe of SWOT water-monitoring satellite liftoff for NASA.