(2 Mar 2023)
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Titusville, Florida - 2 March 2023
1. People watching SpaceX launch
2. Rocket in the sky
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Jurek, Oak Park, Illinois resident:
"The whole sky lit up and it was kind of just magic to watch this thing just lift straight up into the sky. ."
4. People watching SpaceX launch
5. Rocket in the sky
6. Person watching SpaceX launch
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Troy Bartholomew, Dallas, Texas resident:
"It's so inspiring just to see people do impossible things. And so, like when you're in life, you're doing your own thing. And it's easy to get down about just the smallest things, but to see what the space program's done, what NASA's done, what SpaceX has done, and just see that these things that people said you could never do. And they've been done in not decades of time, but literally just years of time, just building and building and trying and trying. It's just inspiring. And just for me, like in my day to day life, just to see like what's possible then to come out here and actually see it launch and just the magic of what that is just, it's incredible."
8. People watching SpaceX launch
9. Jurek and Bartholomew watching launch
10. Close of phone recording launch
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Jurek, Oak Park, Illinois resident:
"Seeing it in person, feeling the sound come across was something I'll absolutely never forget."
12. Rocket in the sky during stage separation
STORYLINE:
SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.
The crew includes the first person from the Arab world going up for a monthslong stay.
Spectators at Space View Park in Titusville cheered as the Falcon rocket bolted from Kennedy Space Center shortly after midnight, illuminating the night sky as it headed up the East Coast.
The Dragon capsule should reach the space station Friday.
NASA's two astronauts are joined by one Russian cosmonaut and only the second person from the United Arab Emirates to fly to space.
They will replace a U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew up there since October.
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