SpaceX may launch a Falcon 9 rocket and then a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida as little as 45 minutes apart on Thursday evening.
Space Force noted that the pair of SpaceX launches may break a record set by the Gemini 11 mission in September 1966.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket stands at pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center several hours before a scheduled launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and A Falcon 9 rocket stands at Cape Canaveral's SLC-40 pad ahead of launching the Starlink 6-7 mission in July 2023.on Thursday night may break a record that's stood for over half a century, with back-to-back launches set to fly from Florida's Space Coast.
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