The Pentagon is modernizing its decades-old launch infrastructure at Cape Canaveral SFS and Vandenberg SFB (above).
Credit: Vantor
Seventy-five years ago, an experimental two-stage rocket launched into the Florida sky from a lonely stretch of coast that would one day become Cape Canaveral SFS. Since Bumper 8’s launch on July 24, 1950, America’s spaceports—from Florida to California, Alaska and Texas—have evolved from isolated...
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