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A Falcon 9 lifts from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday, September 28, 2024 carrying the astronauts of NASA/SpaceX Crew-9 to the International Space Station. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY ...
NASA's 10th Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station is ready for launch Saturday with ... 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:17 p.m. EDT ...
v. t. e. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force 's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida. Headquartered at the nearby Patrick Space Force Base, the station is the primary launch site for the Space Force's Eastern Range [5] with three launch pads ...
May 24, 1973. Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. The site and its collection of facilities were originally built as the Apollo program 's "Moonport" [2] and later modified for the Space Shuttle program. Launch Complex 39 consists of three launch sub ...
Kennedy Space Center, operated by NASA, has two launch complexes on Merritt Island comprising four pads—two active, one under lease, and one inactive. From 1967 to 1975, it was the site of 13 Saturn V launches, three crewed Skylab flights and the Apollo–Soyuz; all Space Shuttle flights from 1981 to 2011, and one Ares 1-X flight in 2009.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rose into the night sky for an on-time liftoff of 8:32 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 on May 17, 2024. The rocket launch is seen from the Vero Beach High ...
January 21, 2000. Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) is the second of Launch Complex 39 's three launch pads, located at NASA 's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. The pad, along with Launch Complex 39A, was first designed for the Saturn V launch vehicle, which at the time was the United States' most powerful rocket.
In October 2014, NASA signed agreement for the use of the facility, and Boeing upgraded the OPF-1 for the X-37B program. [13] The X-37B (OTV-4 mission) first used Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility Runway 15 on May 7, 2017 at 11:47 UTC. [14] [15] Subsequently OTV-5 and 6 mission used Shuttle Landing Facility Runway 33 for landing. [16]