Awesome Videos: Cheer Along with SpaceX Employees

By Nancy Atkinson - May 22, 2012 06:56 PM UTC | Space Exploration

If these videos don't get your heart pumping or your eyes misting, I don't know what will. Let's all cheer along with SpaceX on their incredible accomplishment today! As has been

said on Twitter

, these are the people who really powered today's launch.

More below:

When Dragon's solar arrays deployed:

More cheering, (either when Dragon made it to orbit or at solar array deploy):

Cheering for Elon Musk:

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Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com