STS-121 – Spaceflight Now

December 2, 2025

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[ December 2, 2025 ] Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ December 2, 2025 ] Arianespace launches South Korean Earth observation satellite on Vega-C flight Mission Reports
[ December 1, 2025 ] SpaceX launches evening Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Falcon 9
[ November 30, 2025 ] SpaceX kicks off December with predawn Falcon 9 rocket launch Falcon 9
[ November 28, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 140 spacecraft on Transporter-15 rideshare mission Falcon 9

Piers Sellers, shuttle astronaut and renowned climate researcher, dies at 61

December 26, 2016 Stephen Clark

Former astronaut Piers Sellers, a British-born climate scientist who flew on three space shuttle missions to help construct the International Space Station, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.

OTD…July 4 and STS-121

July 4, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 2006…A star-spangled start to Discovery’s STS-121 mission