SpaceX, ULA launch rockets from Space Force Station on same day - Florida Today

Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday hosted back-to-back rocket launches in an occurrence that hasn't happened since 1966.

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Thursday's Falcon 9 launch featured the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, or KPLO, carefully packed inside the protective nosecone — an ambitious first mission to the moon for South Korea. KPLO is a satellite designed to orbit the moon with a suite of South Korean experiments and one U.S.-built instrument, according to NASA. .

The end of August should bring with it the highly anticipated debut launch of NASA's Space Launch System rocket which is expected to lure hundreds of thousands to the Space Coast for the Artemis I demonstration mission around the moon and back

SpaceX is expected to launch at least one more crewed mission sending NASA's Crew-5 to the International Space Station