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This year, NASA launched six astronauts from the Kennedy Space Center, ending a nearly decade-long drought of human launches from U.S. soil. The launches from Florida’s space coast brought spectators from across the state. And as WMFE’s intern Nelly Ontiveros reports, watching humans launch to space brings a welcome distraction to the otherwise tumultuous news of the year.
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When Doug Hurley launched aboard Atlantis on July 8, 2011, the future of human spaceflight from U.S. soil was uncertain. Nearly a decade later, the astronaut is piloting SpaceX's new Crew Dragon.
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Later this week, NASA and SpaceX will launch the first rocket carrying astronauts from U.S. soil since the end of the space shuttle era. But COVID-19 has forced some changes to their plans.
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and SpaceX's Elon Musk called the test of the Crew Dragon capsule a success. NASA hopes to use the capsule to bring astronauts to the International Space Station.
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Weather has delayed the first launch attempt Wednesday night. NASA will attempt to launch the payload Thursday night. An unconventional launch is now…
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Hurricane watches and warnings are old news for South Florida, but the rest of the state is not off the hook yet.Hurricane Dorian is expected to remain…
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As rocket launches go, Thursday’s deployment of a communications satellite from Cape Canaveral was nothing too unusual.
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Since the end of the shuttle program in 2011, Florida has worked to court private space business to fill the gap. Now, other states like Georgia, Texas…
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Could Florida be the base for a new branch of the military to handle threats in space?Last week, Governor Ron DeSantis asked President Trump to place the…
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The Florida Space Coast is the site of space travel’s most iconic moments. In 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong successfully traveled to the moon. They…
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Rep. Jim Bridenstine is a fighter pilot who wants Americans to return to the moon but doesn't believe that humans are causing climate change.
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Blue Origin, the aerospace effort of technology entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, will build a $200 million manufacturing facility just south of Kennedy Space…