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SpaceX booster flies for 21st time in Cape Canaveral launch
SpaceX lined up and knocked out another Starlink launch from the Space Coast on Friday night using a first-stage booster for a fleet-leading 21st time.
A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-59 mission carrying 23 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:32 p.m.
This marked the 21st flight for the first-stage booster, having previously flown on human spaceflight missions Inspiration4 and Axiom Space’s Ax-1 among others.
Falcon 9 completes its first 21st launch and landing! pic.twitter.com/m77JbAdNKJ
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 18, 2024
It made another recovery landing downrange on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
This marked the 37th launch from the Space Coast for 2024 with all but two coming from SpaceX, although the majority have been for its growing constellation of Starlink internet satellites, which now number close to 6,500 launched since 2019, according to statistics tracked by astronomer Jonathan McDowell.
Blue Origin set for human spaceflight return this weekend
It’s been nearly two years since Blue Origin flew humans to space on its New Shepard rocket, but the next six passengers are set to go Sunday as the Jeff Bezos company gets back to the business of space tourism.
The six passengers include former Air Force Capt. Ed Dwight, the first Black astronaut candidate in the 1960s. Others flying are venture capitalist Mason Angel, French microbrewery founder Sylvain Chiron, software engineer and entrepreneur Kenneth Hess, world explorer and retired CPA Carol Schaller, and pilot and holistic wellness entrepreneur Gopi Thotakura, a graduate of Daytona Beach’s Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Dwight was chosen by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to enter an Air Force flight training program that was one of the ways to join NASA’s astronaut corps, but despite graduating from the Aerospace Research Pilot School, he was not chosen, and retired from military service in 1966. Now 90, he has since become a sculptor with Black history the main theme among his subjects with more than 130 public installations throughout the U.S. and Canada.
GM, LG reach $150 million settlement over Chevrolet Bolt EV battery fires, recall
General Motors and LG Energy Solution have reached a $150 million settlement over Chevrolet Bolt EV battery fires. The deal would give owners of recalled Bolts $700 or $1,400, depending on whether they had their EV battery replaced.