The mission is sending four people, incuding a Lehigh Valley billionarie, on a spacewalk.
Some residents in Perkasie captured a spectacular sight in the early Tuesday morning sky.
The mesmerizing conical spacecraft was the Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off at 5:23 a.m. from NASA Kennedy Space Center at Merritt Island, FL.
The rocket, part of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission, is a Dragon spacecraft carrying pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet, mission specialists Sarah Gillis and medical officer Anna Menon, and mission commander and Lehigh Valley billionaire Jared Isaacman, per The Reporter.
The purpose of the launch was for a Thursday morning spacewalk.
According to NASA, the launch was visible in the southeastern Pennsylvania region.
Capture from Callowhill and Branch in Perkasie Borough.
