Close-up initial sighting of rocket booster landing from SpaceX Axiom-2. #shorts #shortvideo

This is an extended version of my previous SpaceX Axiom-2 booster video from a few weeks ago. This one shows the initial sighting of the booster before the thrusters ignite for landing. And yes, my family and I had front row seats to this real life spectacle a few weeks back...

Approximately eight minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 rocket's first-stage booster targeted a landing back at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Landing Zone 1, generating a sonic boom. And although this was absolutely incredible to witness, we weren't prepared for that sonic boom. ;-)

[JasonLihani]

That is one of the coolest thing humans have ever achieved.

[OriginalFrozenJoe]

Imagine a tall thin building falling out of the sky and landing itself. It gets me every time.

[fkytubchanel]

The physics doing the calculations and adjustments is incredible!! Wow

[SternLX]

When I was a kid in the 70's watching Apollo mission launches. I NEVER thought I'd see the day I'd see rockets flying backwards. Never even conceived it. Still blows my mind every time I see it.

[KevinVenturePhilippines]

The boosters are like 16 stories tall! And they are still going so fast until the last second, unbelievable!

[АртемЛуспарян-зе]

Сколько восторга и счастья в глазах этого мальчишки . Молодцы Американцы!❤

[photorealm]

Amazing, That looks like science fiction but they actually did it.

[RonRay]

This is the way rockets landed in movies when I was a kid, back in the 1950's.

[bl]

FANTASTIC camera work, no shaking, perfectly centered, no hercky jerky, just smooth as butter. Job well done!🎉

[reelfun]

That is amazing . Never did I think that AMERICA could have a rocket land and retrieved like that .

[tomchidwick]

Never thought I'd live long enough to ever be around for something like this. Truly awesome.

[colettegagnon]

Those kids just saw history in the making. Wild..thanks for sharing this.

[kylebieth]

Seeing that just fills me with pride that our space program has come this far. Literally stuff youd see from 1960s and 70s sci fi movies....love it.

[johnnylego]

Absolutely brilliant that it can just find its way home. Absolutely brilliant! Guiding a multi ton steel rod through the atmosphere like a drone returning to home base. So incredible.

[Opusss]

I could watch these a thousand times and it still wouldn't get old.

[chrisfeeney]

Sci-fi movies in the 1950's showed rockets landing like this!

[barelyaninconvenience]

Is great to see kids excited looking towards the future.

[ivanatomicbomb]

That kid will remember that for the rest of his life. What a great way to inspire the younger generations.

[mikefm]

What I love most about this stuff is you can see in that kids face. It motivates and excites a whole new generation of people to sciences and aviation and aerospace

[kwilsonjr]

The kid smiling at the end is what makes it great.