Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

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  Designed For Only 5 Flights, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Completes 70th Trip On Mars

  Ingenuity was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on July 30, 2020, and landed onMars'Jezero Crater onFebruary 18, 2021.

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  SpaceX Confirms Crew Dragon Capsule Destroyed in April Test Accident

  The April 20 accident occurred at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as SpaceX was about to test eight emergency thrusters designed to propel the capsule.

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  NASA's Mars Helicopter Completes Flight Tests, Ready to Fly to Red Planet

  NASA Mars Helicopter will launch as a technology demonstrator with the Mars 2020 rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in July 2020 from the Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

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  SpaceX Dragon To Return To Earth With 3,800 Pounds Of Cargo

  After delivering more than 5,900 pounds of science and supplies, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to depart the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth on Friday. The spacecraft will depart the ISS, along with critical scientific research, at 12.37 pm EDT and splash down in the Pacific Ocean at about 6.17 pm, NASA said in a statement.

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  SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Launches NASA's TESS Planet Hunting Telescope

  NASA's Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, lifted off on schedule from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:51pm EDT on Wednesday (4:21am IST on Thursday).

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  NASA Plans to Launch Next Planet-Hunting Spacecraft on April 16

  NASA is targeting April 16 for the launch of its next planet-hunting spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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  SpaceX Launches Rocket From Historic NASA Pad In Florida

  A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off on Sunday from a Florida launch pad once used to send NASA astronauts to the moon, a step forward for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and his company's goal of ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station.

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  SpaceX Says It Has Found Cause Of Rocket Explosion And Plans To Fly Again Sunday

  Elon Musk's SpaceX said Monday that it has discovered the cause of a Sept. 1 rocket explosion and plans to return to flight as soon as Sunday.

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  NASA Launches 'Next Generation' Weather Satellite

  A "next generation" US weather satellite that was rocketed into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:42 pm EST on Saturday (5.12 am Sunday, India time) is on its way to sharpen forecasts, watches and warnings about hurricanes and storms, NASA said.

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  What Are the Origins of Life? There's a Rocket for That

  The $1 billion mission, known as OSIRIS-REx, is scheduled for launch on September 8 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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  NASA To Launch First Asteroid Sample Return Mission Next Month

  NASA, the US space agency is set to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth on September 8 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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  3D Printer, 'Gecko Grippers' Head to ISS

  The 59-metre Atlas 5 rocket soared off its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 3:05am GMT.

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  NASA Launches Small Research Satellite

  With help from NASA, a small research satellite to test technology for in-space solar propulsion has been launched into space.

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  SpaceX Rocket Blasts Off, Then Lands Too Hard on Ocean Barge

  "This might change completely how we approach transportation to space," SpaceX Vice President Hans Koenigsman told reporters during a prelaunch press conference.

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  SpaceX Rocket Launch, Landing Test, Delayed by Weather

  The launch of an unmanned SpaceX rocket - and an innovative attempt to land it on an ocean barge - were postponed on Monday due to poor weather at the Florida launch site, officials said.