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From the December 12, 2002 :

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From the December 12, 2002 Florida Today ...

"A dot.com tycoon has picked Cape Canaveral as a launch site for a new breed of rockets that could lift half-ton satellites for about half the current market price, state government officials said Thursday.

"Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or , plans to launch its proposed Falcon rocket from a state-owned pad at a Space Launch Complex 46 ..."

Inspired by the latest episode of , my new Windows wallpaper courtesy of @DaveBlass on Twitter.

The vehicle used today by to transport Falcon 9 boosters began life as the Orbiter Transportation System. It was built in 1983 by an Italian company called Cometto to transport the Shuttle orbiter at Vandenberg (CA) AFB, where intended to have a second Shuttle launch site. It was later transferred to . After the Shuttle program ended, NASA sold it to SpaceX.

Here are Nov 28, 1984 articles from the Lompoc Record and Santa Maria Times reporting on the OTS delivery.

"This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow, five years ago this week. Eerily prescient about the pending indictment in New York City.

I was at the Clerk of the Court in Merritt Island this morning to do research for my book. This was in the lobby.

The front page of 13 years ago today. The lead story was a "space forum" the night before where locals bashed President for the end of Shuttle, even though it was Bush who cancelled it seven years before with the approval of Congress. (1/x)

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