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October 31, 2025

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[ October 30, 2025 ] Former NASA Administrators urge space agency to rethink plans for Artemis Moon lander News
[ October 28, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ October 28, 2025 ] Blue Origin details lunar exploration progress amid Artemis 3 contract shakeup Mission Reports
[ October 28, 2025 ] Astrobotic delays Griffin-1 Moon mission to NET July 2026 Mission Reports
[ October 26, 2025 ] SpaceX breaks its California pad turnaround record with sunset Starlink launch Falcon 9

Minotaur rocket selected to launch military satellite in 2017

July 9, 2015 Stephen Clark

Cape Canaveral will get its first Minotaur rocket launch in 2017, when the solid-fueled booster will send up a U.S. Air Force space surveillance satellite under a contract with Orbital ATK.

Space Florida to take over KSC’s shuttle runway

June 15, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA will hand over control of the Kennedy Space Center’s disused space shuttle landing strip to the state of Florida on June 22 in a major step toward repurposing the three-mile-long runway for future spacecraft, officials said Monday.

Former Atlas launch pad gets a new tenant

January 24, 2015 Stephen Clark

A decommissioned launch facility at Cape Canaveral where some of America’s first interplanetary missions left Earth will now be used as a test site for a commercial moon lander.