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The 45th Space Wing supported SpaceX’s successful launch of a Falcon 9 Dragon spacecraft headed to the International Space Station from Space Launch Complex 40 here July 18, 2016, at 12:45 a.m. ET. At approximately eight minutes after the launch, SpaceX successfully landed the Falcon 9 first-stage booster at Landing Zone 1 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.This Falcon 9 Dragon launch was the 13th major launch operation for the Eastern Range this year, and marks the ninth contracted mission by SpaceX under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract. (Courtesy photo by SpaceX)


45th Space Wing supports SpaceX’s CRS-9 mission launch

The 45th Space Wing supported SpaceX’s successful launch of a Falcon 9 Dragon spacecraft headed to the International Space Station from Space Launch Complex 40 here July 18, 2016, at 12:45 a.m. ET. At approximately eight minutes after the launch, SpaceX successfully landed the Falcon 9 first-stage booster at Landing Zone 1 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.This Falcon 9 Dragon launch was the 13th major launch operation for the Eastern Range this year, and marks the ninth contracted mission by SpaceX under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract. (Courtesy photo by SpaceX)

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SpaceX made history March 30, 2017 with the successful launch of a reused Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:27 p.m. EDT. One hour prior to the milestone launch, Citizen Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing were clearing the box beneath the rocket’s path in an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter ensuring no mariners were in harm’s way prior to launch. (Photo courtesy Spacex)
Lt. Cols. Michael Stucker and Gordon Schmidt, HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter pilots with the 301st Rescue Squadron, clear the Eastern Range of boat traffic prior to the successful launch of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft Feb. 19 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. (Photo by Carleton Bailie)