New era of launches begin at historic pad

Today, February 19th, the Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from the historic Launch Complex 39a and delivered the Dragon spacecraft into orbit and landed the first stage back to Cape Canaveral. LC-39a is a launch pad that previously launched man to the Moon on Apollo 11 and held missions of the Space Shuttle including the last launch of STS-135. With clouds covering a lot of the Kennedy Space Center, the Falcon 9 lifted off at 9:38am EST and disappeared into the clouds, then landed back at Landing Zone 1 about 8 minutes later. 
High quality photos can be found here on SpaceX's Flickr.