This sunup , Elon Musk ’s SpaceX program shoot its third garden rocket into space . The Falcon 9 bear with it a Dragon cargo ejector seat , and will deliver supplies to ISS astronauts not entirely unlike a 19th century shipment train delivering mining equipment to California . The launch , as you could see in the video above , go away off without a hitch .

If you have worry for even a second about the future tense of humanity in space , do n’t . It ’s clearly in good hands . And as majestic as ever .

Update : While the launching itself went flawlessly , there are now reports that the Dragon capsule has experienced difficulty after separation . other speculation is that it may be associate to the deployment of the solar array :

SpaceX#Dragontrouble fall out about the same time as solar array deploy , a critical milestone in flight of steps

— Space Team ( @SpaceTeam)March 1 , 2013

Update 2 : : After some initial problems with the thrusters , the solar array has been deployed successfully . All is well !

Solar array deployment successful

— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)March 1 , 2013

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