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Sonic booms expected when SpaceX lands Falcon 9 booster back at Cape Canaveral

SpaceX’s Transporter-3 mission has a 29-minute launch window that opens Thursday at 10:25 a.m., with a scheduled booster landing back at Cape Canaveral.

Hundreds of people came on Fort Hood Sunday to honor their ancestors who are buried in one of the 20 cemeteries on the installation.

1 of 4 Soldiers from 504th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade unload debris from an illegal dumping site within one of the training areas. Jim Imhoff, engineering technician with the Directorate of Public Works Operations and Maintenance Division, said 61,500 pounds of trash was collected at the installation-wide spring cleanup. Photo by Christine Luciano, DPW Environmental Photo by Christine Luciano, DPW Environmental Photo by Christine Luciano, DPW Environment...

SpaceX and NASA entering final preparations for Crew-2 launch April 1, 2021 With launch now just a few weeks away, SpaceX and NASA have entered final preparations for the second operational Crew Dragon mission. This will be SpaceX’s second long-duration crew rotation for NASA as a part of the Commercial Crew program.  Crew-2 will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft from historic LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center on April 22 at 6:11 AM EDT (10:11 UTC). It will also ...

Military officials have criticised members of the public using Salisbury Plain after using safety points as dog poo bins. The Salisbury Plain Training Area, managed by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), said that tapping-in points across the military training area were being used by walkers as a receptacle for bagged dog waste and other rubbish. They said that cleaning the points takes up a member of staffs time, "diverting them from keeping an eye out for your safety." In a s...

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