Watch the Falcon 9 launch from pad 39A

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is again standing on launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this time with a Dragon supply ship on top ready to head on a resupply run to the International Space Station.

SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk on Tuesday outlined an ambition to send humans to Mars with methane-fueled reusable spaceships and the largest rocket ever built, an effort he said will likely require government support and initially cost billions of dollars to develop and test.

Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station was at 3:19 p.m. EST (2019 UTC) on Thursday Nov. 7. It was the 72nd Starlink launch of 2024.