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SpaceX has been approved for a five-year contract  to launch its rockets from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) is located on Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was previously used by the U.S. Air Force for Titan III and Titan IV launches and to send off the Mars Observer spacecraft and the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn.

On April 26, 2007, private space transportation company SpaceX (formally called Space Exploration Technologies) was granted the use of LC-40 for the next five years by the 45th Space Wing of the U.S. Air Force Space Command.   Read more

The people closest to David Beverly, the NASA engineer shot to death in his space-center office last week, asked his friends and colleagues at a memorial service Wednesday to share in his passions for work, play and family.

Beverly, 62, was as much at home straddling a motorcycle on a cross-country trip or skippering his 41-foot sailboat through Galveston Bay as he was troubleshooting electronics gear for the space shuttle, the international space station or NASA’s new moon ship.

“David had such a great passion for his work for NASA and being a part of a great program,” his widow, Linda Beverly, told an audience of several hundred people who filled a space center auditorium.  Read more