SpaceX Launch: SpaceX has achieved a remarkable milestone with its Falcon family of rockets, surpassing the total number of Space Shuttle missions from the iconic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The combination of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket launches has now exceeded the total number of shuttle flights seen at that historic pad. This achievement was reached during the Starlink 6-56 mission, which launched on a Falcon 9 rocket at 2:42 p.m. EDT (1842 UTC), marking the 83rd orbital launch from SpaceX’s KSC pad—surpassing the 82 shuttle launches that took place over the 30-year history of the shuttle program.
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The SpaceX flights responsible for this milestone include 74 Falcon 9 launches and nine Falcon Heavy launches. The first stage booster supporting this mission, tail number B1083 in the SpaceX fleet, made its third launch. It had previously launched the Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station as well as the Starlink 6-48 mission. Following the successful liftoff, the booster landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ marking the 68th booster landing for ASOG and the 305th first stage landing for SpaceX overall.
Jared Isaacman, commander of the forthcoming Polaris Dawn mission, hinted on X (formerly Twitter) that booster B1083 might support the launch of his crew inside the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. Stu Keech, vice president of the Dragon program, confirmed that Crew Dragon Resilience was in Florida, undergoing prelaunch processing for the early summer launch of the Polaris Dawn mission, which will include the first civilian spacewalk in history.
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