321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week (Jan. 27)
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Elon Musk gives thumbs-up during Donald Trump's inauguration speech
Elon Musk was seen giving thumbs-up during Donald Trump's inaugural speech, where he vowed to put the American flag on Mars.
SpaceX launch recap: Live updates from Starlink mission Tuesday from Cape Canaveral
Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Tuesday, Jan. 21, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 13-1 mission.
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 on Starlink mission Tuesday morning at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
In the Space Coast's eighth launch of 2025 thus far, a SpaceX Falcon 9 took flight on another Starlink mission early Tuesday morning from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
The Falcon 9 lifted off at 12:24 a.m. EST from pad 39A, ascending into low-Earth orbit to deploy a payload of 21 Starlink internet satellites.
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Space Perspective gets eviction summons from airport; company seeks investors for test flights
Space Perspective was issued a five-day eviction summons Friday for the company's high-altitude balloon manufacturing factory and office facilities at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville after falling behind $90,295 in unpaid base rent in recent months, court records indicate.
Only 17 months ago, Space Perspective officials hosted a crowd of Brevard County politicians, industry officials and media during a high-profile August 2023 ribbon-cutting ceremony dedicating the newly built 700-foot-long balloon factory on Bartow Way, just off an airport runway.
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President Trump: 'American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars'
President Donald Trump made a bold promise to America minutes after taking the Oath of Office: pledging that an American flag would be planted on Mars.
"The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation — one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars," President Trump said.
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NASA Day of Remembrance: Tribute to fallen astronauts at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
The names of all fallen astronauts were read one by one, followed by the ringing of a bell after each name.
Apollo 1. Challenger. Columbia. Every January, NASA remembers its fallen heroes during this dark time of year.
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SpaceX targeting Monday afternoon for Falcon 9 rocket launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket may streak across the Space Coast's skies Monday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration reports.
SpaceX is targeting a 4½-hour launch window for another Starlink mission from 2:21 p.m. to 6:52 p.m. EST, an FAA operations plan advisory shows.
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American Space Museum honors fallen NASA astronauts during Titusville remembrance ceremony
NASA's Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia tragedies remind Andrew Allen of the science fiction movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still," where Americans later recall what they were doing and what they were feeling when they heard the grim news.
Allen was a U.S. Marine Corps pilot when he learned about the January 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion — he had just finished flying an F/A-18 Hornet bombing practice run near Yuma, Arizona.
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Rick Neale is a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale at Rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter/X: @RickNeale1
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