In an ongoing series entitled Airportraits, photographer Mike Kelly visits airports around the world, waiting for the right weather conditions before spending a day capturing airplanes taking off and landing.

Falcon 9 rocket had just shot 200km up into space and flown almost horizontal to the planet at six times the speed of sound, before falling back to Earth. Then, somehow, it landed like a feather on a robotic barge in the ocean. The Falcon even found time to put an inflatable space habitat into orbit, too. [arstechnica]

The Shepard space vehicle completed its test flight to an altitude of 329,839 feet (100.5 kilometers) before landing back at base.