May 5, 1961
Alan Shepard made history as the first American astronaut to travel into space aboard Freedom 7 spacecraft, reaching an altitude of 116 miles during a 15-minute suborbital flight that demonstrated NASA's capabilities in the Space Race.
June 4, 2010
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket completed its historic first launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, revolutionizing commercial spaceflight with innovative design and reusability concepts.
December 21, 2015
SpaceX achieved a historic milestone by successfully landing its Falcon 9 rocket's first stage booster at Cape Canaveral, marking the first-ever vertical landing of an orbital-class rocket while delivering 11 Orbcomm-2 satellites to orbit.
May 23, 2019
SpaceX successfully launched its first batch of 60 Starlink satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, initiating their ambitious global internet coverage project.
