The Falcon 9 rocket could take off this Saturday. - JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP

It's historic! A first ! After a first false start, the SpaceX space capsule finally took off this Saturday evening at 9:22 pm, despite a threatening sky. 

SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, gave the green light to fill the rocket's tanks with kerosene and liquid oxygen, for takeoff at the Kennedy Space Center on the Atlantic coast in Florida, under the eyes of Donald Trump .

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