#SpaceCoast #Space From the December 12, 2002 #FloridaToday:
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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 #SpaceX, plans to launch its proposed Falcon rocket from a state-owned pad at a Space Launch Complex 46 ..."
#SpaceCoast #Space Photos of this morning's #SpaceX #Starlink launch as seen from north Merritt Island.
#SpaceCoast #Space The business end of the #RelativitySpace Terran 1 that launched from here last night. The flames are blue because methane is the fuel.
https://www.johnkrausphotos.com/Galleries/Launches/Terran-1-GLHF/i-bV6PLrr/A
Inspired by the latest episode of #StarTrekPicard, my new Windows wallpaper courtesy of @DaveBlass on Twitter.
The vehicle used today by #SpaceX 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 #NASA intended to have a second Shuttle launch site. It was later transferred to #KSC. 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.
#Politics "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow, five years ago this week. Eerily prescient about the pending indictment in New York City.
#SpaceCoast #KSC #NASA I was at the Clerk of the Court in Merritt Island this morning to do research for my book. This was in the lobby.
#SpaceCoast #NASA #Space The front page of #FloridaToday 13 years ago today. The lead story was a "space forum" the night before where locals bashed President #Obama for the end of Shuttle, even though it was Bush who cancelled it seven years before with the approval of Congress. (1/x)
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.