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Falcon 9 rocket has completed a total of 83 launches, 44 landings, and 31 re-flow missions. A single Merlin Vacuum engine powers Falcon 9’s second-stage using a 165:1 expansion nozzle (large exhaust section and significantly larger nozzle to maximize efficiency in space vacuum) and can be restarted multiple times using dual redundant triethylaluminum-triethylborane pyrophoric igniters to place different payloads to ...

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship passed critical NASA safety review on Friday May 22nd and is cleared to fly two Nasa astronauts to orbit. SpaceX will launch Falcon 9 Rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 4:33 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 27th on an estimated 110-day mission called Demo-2. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley completed mission rehearsal and review on ...