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2022 Falcon 9 Launches Already Outnumber 2021
July 17, 2022 – With SpaceX’s launch on Sunday morning, the company has already blasted off as many times in 2022 as it did for the entire year in 2021. By reusing components from one flight to another, the company shortens turnaround times as well as making the business more cost-effective. The mission lifted another… [Continue Reading]
Here’s A Great Travel Idea—Space!
December 12, 2021 - Travel and Leisure provides us with a list of 50 great places to travel in 2022. And most of them are earthly stops. But the surprising bonus suggestion on this prestigious list of places to travel is space. https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/best-places-to-travel-in-2022 Jeff Bezos inspects Blue Origin booster pad. Image Credit: Blue Origin Although... [Continue Reading]
We #Launch From Here
A night launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 is always an impressive sight. This is a great place to live. It’s a great place to visit, too. Titusville on Florida’s Famed Space Coast is on many bucket lists. Adventures of all kinds are easy to find here and most people who visit notice that the... [Continue Reading]
Space for Everyone
Image Credit: SpaceX September 13, 2021 - It's fair to say that everyone, at one time or another, has dreamed of being an astronaut. And now, for a few regular joes and janes, that dream is coming true. Scheduled for a September 15 launch window, the SpaceX Crew Dragon will be manned by four private... [Continue Reading]
Pre-dawn Skies Light Up With Crewed Launch
April 23, 2021 – The SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 4 astronauts on a NASA mission to the International Space Station, becoming the first crew ever propelled into orbit by a rocket booster recycled from a previous spaceflight. The U.S. returned to launching astronauts from American soil last May, nine years after the space shuttle program… [Continue Reading]
Gaedcke Is Big In Japan
April 21, 2021 – We all know that Marcia Gaedcke, President of the Titusville Area Chamber of Commerce, is an international woman of mystery (the mystery being, how does she accomplish so much? Does she never sleep?), but she also is happy to jump in when the news crews from around the world drop by…. [Continue Reading]
Same Capsule, Different Day
April 20, 2021 – SpaceX and NASA are poised to send another crewed mission into space with Crew-2 set to fly to the International Space Station in the early hours on Thursday, April 22. The international veteran crew includes Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, Akihiko Hoshide with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and… [Continue Reading]
NASA Picks SpaceX for SPHEREx Launch in 2024
NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch the SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission. This astrophysics mission is the latest in a series of awards to SpaceX for launching science missions on a Falcon 9. SPHEREx is a space observatory which will spend two years… [Continue Reading]
Rocket Launches Oh Yeah!
SpaceX Crew-1 rescheduled to Sunday, Nov. 15 7:27 pm Eastern. Nov 14, 2020— Just last evening an Atlas V thundered into the skies carrying a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite on a classified mission. This United Space Alliance (ULA) launch was a beautiful site in the night sky, with three strap-on boosters falling away as… [Continue Reading]