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Top 20 Significant Events
October 2019
NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft launched on a mission to study Earth’s ionosphere aboard a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket carried aloft by the company’s Stargazer aircraft. The agency’s Launch Services Program (LSP) managed the launch service.
December 2019
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo spacecraft on the company’s 19th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station.
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November 2019
Kennedy received the national honor of being named a Purple Heart Entity by the Military Order of the Purple Heart in recognition for the spaceport’s support of veterans through employment opportunities and services.
December 2019
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 on the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test. The mission was shortened due to an unstable orbit and the spacecraft successfully completed the U.S.’s first land touchdown of a human-rated capsule two days later at New Mexico’s White Sands Space Harbor.
