A reflown #Falcon9 took flight Thursday lunchtime to deliver the 5th @LockheedMartin-built #GPSIII satellite to orbit on behalf of @SpaceForceDoD. […]
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As #Falcon9 completes her pre-flight test-fire, @SpaceForceDoD & @SpaceX stand primed for 5th GPS Block III launch on Thursday. […] 
Starting Thursday, @SpaceX & @ULALaunch plan to rock the Space Coast through June with the roar of 4 Falcon 9s & 1 #MightyAtlas. […] 
OTD in 1966, Gemini VIII returned safely to Earth after one of the most harrowing emergencies ever experienced in space. […] 
OTD in 1966, future Moonwalkers Neil Armstrong & Dave Scott almost lost their lives. Today & tomorrow, @AmericaSpace remembers the ill-fated voyage of Gemini VIII. […] 
55 years ago, #GeminiV launched astronauts Gordon Cooper & Pete Conrad on America’s longest manned spaceflight at that time. […] 
Buzz Aldrin stands before the U.S. flag at the Sea of Tranquility. Photo Credit: NASA On Sunday, 20 July 1969, the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston, Texas, was filled with tension and expectant quiet. More than three billion people lived on Earth and three others—Apollo 11 […] 
Perspective of humanity’s first naked-eye view of the lunar surface at the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility, 50 years ago, this week. Photo Credit: NASA Fifty years ago, this weekend, on Sunday, 20 July 1969, the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC)—later to become the Johnson Space Center (JSC)—in Houston, […] 
The Home Planet creeps slowly above the lunar horizon, as viewed from Apollo 11. Only a handful of men have seen this view in more than two million years of human history. Photo Credit: NASA When Apollo 11 and its three-man crew—Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and Buzz Aldrin—rose into space 50 years ago, this […] 
Illuminated by floodlights, the Saturn V for Apollo 11 stands ready on Pad 39A. Fifty years ago, this month, it delivered the first humans to the lunar surface. Photo Credit: NASA Early in July 1969, Jan Armstrong called her friend, Lurton Scott, for help. Only a few days remained before her husband, Neil, blasted […] |
 Next Launch Lucy on a Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 16 Oct 21 at 9:34 GMT 16 Oct 21 at 5:34am Eastern 
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