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  • Video: SpaceX raises the Heavy

    Jason RhianApril 10th, 2019

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Launch preparations continued for the second flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. Part of those efforts included raising the 730-foot-tall rocket into the vertical position.

  • Video: Falling Heritage – SLC-17 demolished to pave way for the future

    Jason RhianJuly 13th, 2018

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The two towers at Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 17 were demolished via controlled explosions at 7 a.m. EDT (11:00 GMT) on Thursday July 12, 2018. When the towers fell, 61 years of launch history came to a close. The site will now be used by Moon Express to test its lunar lander.

  • Video Feature: SpaceX Falcon 9 creates thunder and light on CRS-15 mission

    Jason RhianJune 30th, 2018

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- SpaceX launched the final Block 4 Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 on Friday, June 29, 2018. The fifteenth Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-15) mission, conducted on behalf of NASA, lifted off at 5:42 EDT (09:42 GMT). SpaceFlight Insider set several video recorders captured the early-morning flight in spectacular detail.