Watch time-lapse of Falcon Heavy going upright (members only)

Teams at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi removed the core of NASA’s first Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket from a test stand earlier this week for loading onto a barge to carry it to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the rocket stage is due to arrive by the end of the month to start final preparations for a test flight around the Moon.

The touchdown of booster 1075 marked SpaceX’s 450th Falcon booster landing. Liftoff from pad 4 East happened at 3:32 p.m. PDT (6:32 p.m. EDT, 2232 UTC).

With Tropical Depression Eta forecast to restrengthen into a tropical storm and move toward Florida, United Launch Alliance moved an Atlas 5 rocket off its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Friday and delayed liftoff with a U.S. government spy satellite to Wednesday.