The final land acquisition at Vandenberg occurred on March 1, 1966, after the Air Force had announced plans to construct Space Launch Complex 6 for its Manned Orbiting Laboratory ( MOL ) program.

Launch occurred on November 9 at 7: 00AM EST ( 12: 00PM UTC ).

Another failure, this time complete, occurred on January 17, 1997, when a Delta II 7925 carrying the first GPS Block IIR satellite, GPS IIR-1, exploded only 13 seconds after liftoff, raining flaming debris all over Launch Complex 17 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Liftoff occurred from Launch Complex 39, Pad B ( LC-39B ) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 2 December 1988 at 09: 30 EST.

Launch occurred 15 November 1990, 18: 48: 13 EST.

Launch finally occurred on August 2, 1991 without further delays.

Launch occurred. 019 seconds from its scheduled time of 4: 26am December 2, 1993.

Launch occurred 13 July 1995 at 9: 41: 55. 078 a. m. EDT.

In 1996, a fatal accident occurred when the rocket carrying the Intelsat 708 satellite failed on launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

Launches were made using Titan IV rockets with Centaur upper stages, and all six occurred from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Launch, from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station occurred at 20: 12: 00 GMT on April 4, 2008.

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The LOC included Launch Complex 39, a Launch Control Center, and a 130 million cubic foot ( 3. 7 million cubic meter ) Vehicle Assembly Building in which the space vehicle ( launch vehicle and spacecraft ) would be assembled on a Mobile Launcher Platform and then moved by a transporter to one of several launch pads.

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* 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.

The deployment of IPv6 is accelerating, with a World IPv6 Launch having taken place on 6 June 2012, in which major internet service providers, especially in countries that had been lagging in IPv6 adoption, deployed IPv6 addresses to portions of their users.

* 1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body.

After launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 the protective shroud covering Mariner 4 was jettisoned and the Agena D / Mariner 4 combination separated from the Atlas D booster at 14: 27: 23 UTC on November 28, 1964.

This final flight, authorized in October 2010, brought additional supplies to the International Space Station and take advantage of the processing performed for the Launch on Need mission, which would only have been flown in the event that Endeavour's STS-134 crew required rescue.

Before its planned February 21, 1967 launch, the Command Module interior caught fire and burned on January 27, 1967 during a pre-launch test on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, killing all three men.

Launch of Apollo 1 was planned for February 21, 1967, when the crew entered the spacecraft on January 27, mounted atop its Saturn IB booster on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, for a " plugs-out " test of the spacecraft, which included a rehearsal of the launch countdown procedure.

Mariner 2 was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 at 06: 53: 14 UTC on August 27, 1962 by a two-stage Atlas-Agena rocket.

Mariner 3 was launched on November 5, 1964 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 13,

It was launched toward Venus on June 14, 1967 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 and flew by the planet on October 19 that year at an altitude of.

Launch and transport system differ not only on the payload that can be carried but also in the stresses and other factors placed on the payload.

The United States Navy is also using linear induction motors in the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System that will replace traditional steam catapults on future aircraft carriers.

Since the bankruptcy, only seven additional satellites have been launched but an updated constellation of 66 satellites called Iridium NEXT is currently being developed and is planned for launch in 2015-2017 on SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Vehicles from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3 in California.

** Launch failure March 21, 1964

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The rocket exploded on its launch pad at the Alcântara Launch Center killing 21 people.

On 21 October 1998, Endeavour was transported atop the Crawler Transporter to Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A.

Mercury-Atlas 2 ( MA-2 ) was launched unmanned on February 21, 1961 at 14: 10 UTC, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Launch range from Mach 1. 4, 11 km altitude: 60 km ( head-on ) / 21 km ( tail-on ).

Three days later, the stunting was stopped at 5pm ( 21 June 2002 ), and because of the clever stunting, KAZL did receive considerable press coverage which created a curiosity buzz about the Launch of KNRJ.

* 1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.

** A Long March 3 rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing as many as 50.

Construction work for MOL began at Space Launch Complex 6 ( SLC-6 ) on South Vandenberg in March 1966.

In March 2009 the Royal Australian Air Force successfully carried out the first in-service ' Lock on After Launch ' firing of an ASRAAM at a target located behind the wing-line of the ‘ shooter ’ aircraft.

He was launched into space aboard his Shenzhou 5 spacecraft atop a Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 09: 00 CST ( 01: 00 UTC ) on October 15, 2003.

Shenzhou 6 ( Shénzhōu lìuhào ) was the second human spaceflight of the People's Republic of China, launched on October 12, 2005 on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

On April 24, 1970 at 9: 35 pm, a Long March I rocket ( CZ-1 ) lifted off from the China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, placing the Dongfanghong I satellite in orbit at 9: 48 pm.

It was launched on March 11, 1960 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17a at 13: 00: 00 UTC with an on-orbit dry mass of 43 kg.

Launch was originally scheduled for 9 March, but during processing work at Pad A, significant cracks were found on all four lug hinges on the two external tank umbilical door drive mechanisms.

Launch: 24 March 1992, 8: 13 am EST.

Launch originally scheduled for 23 March, but was delayed one day because of higher-than-allowable concentrations of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in the orbiter's aft compartment during tanking operations.

Launch was rescheduled for 24 March.

Launch was rescheduled to very early March.

* Launch Area 2: Long March 2E, Long March 3A, Long March 3B, and Long March 3C launch complex.

* Launch Area 3: Long March 2C, Long March 3 and Long March 3A launch complex.

All were launched by Long March 3B rockets from Launch Area 2 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre.

* Long March Launch Vehicle Technology