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Shuttle Atlantis unwrapped ahead of public debut

April 25, 2013 Spaceflight Now

Workers removed the protective wrap that has cocooned space shuttle Atlantis while its $100 million new home was built around it at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Tim Macy, director of project development for the visitor complex describes the work and looks ahead to the opening of the new exhibit this June.

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Launch of Falcon 9 rocket scrubbed second day in a row

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For the second day running, computers automatically aborted a Falcon 9 launch countdown Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the final seconds before liftoff with the Intelsat 35e communications satellite.

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X-37B’s return to Cape Canaveral in images

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The U.S. Air Force has released an infrared video and additional images from Sunday’s landing of the military’s X-37B spaceplane in Florida after a top secret mission that lasted more than two years.

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Live coverage: SpaceX launch moved up to Wednesday

April 16, 2020 Stephen Clark

SpaceX has moved up its next launch to Wednesday, one day earlier than previously planned. A Falcon 9 rocket will take off with the next 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband Internet network at 3:37 p.m. EDT (1937 GMT) Wednesday from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There’s a 90 percent chance of favorable weather for launch Wednesday.

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  • Live coverage: SpaceX to launch first Starlink V3 satellites to orbit on Starship
    September 28, 2026
  • Next crew bound for the space station arrive in Florida
    September 26, 2026
  • SpaceX Falcon 9 launches classified mission for U.S. Space Force from West Coast
    September 25, 2026
  • NASA announces new space telescope ‘PRIMA’ to launch in 2033
    September 24, 2026
  • SpaceX stack Starship and Super Heavy for first orbital flight
    September 23, 2026
  • SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster arrives at pad ahead of first orbital Starship launch
    September 21, 2026
  • Russian Progress cargo ship arrives at International Space Station
    September 19, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg
    September 19, 2026
  • SpaceX launches national security payload for U.S. Space Force from Vandenberg
    September 15, 2026
  • Avio launches pair of climate monitoring European spacecraft to study plants, oceans and atmospheric changes
    September 15, 2026
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