SpaceX Falcon rocket launch

Nine Merlin 1D main engines powered the SpaceX Falcon 9 with 1.7 million pounds of thrust northeast from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Then a single Merlin upper stage engine propelled the Crew Dragon spacecraft into orbit on its way to the International Space Station. After the upper stage engine shut down, the Crew Dragon capsule separated from the Falcon 9, which returned to Earth, landing on its target drone ship so that it can be used again.