Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Falcon 9 Full Thrust

Falcon 9 Full Thrust

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Original – First stage of a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket on the autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) Of Course I Still Love You. The stage landed successfully after launching the SpaceX CRS-8 resupply mission to the ISS. According to SpaceX, the photograph was taken from a NASA chase plane.

Reason

Good composition and EV. FP on Commons

Articles in which this image appears

Autonomous spaceport drone ship, SpaceX reusable launch system development program, SpaceX CRS-8, 2016 in science, 2016 in spaceflight, History of SpaceX, List of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters, SpaceX, Western Telematic Inc.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there

Creator

SpaceX Photos

• Support as nominator – TheFreeWorld (talk) 09:34, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
• Support – for the EV. Bammesk (talk) 01:18, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
• Support – Likewise, not very easy to get a better shot... --Janke | Talk 08:37, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
• Support - for EV. Pictures captures all the important details really well -- Kalyan (talk) 03:41, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
• Support ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 16:48, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Promoted File:CRS-8 (26239020092).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:06, 26 February 2021 (UTC)