08/30/2026
How amazing … When you can walk out your front door and watch (we weren’t sure if we heard the double sonic boom ) a Falcon 9 heavy launch from Cape Canaveral. There’s so much more to Florida than the theme parks.
Falcon Heavy's two side boosters fly back and land about 9 miles south of the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Because they touch down within seconds of each other.
The payload: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, headed to an orbit near the Sun-Earth L2 point, about 930,000 miles out. Roman studies dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets with a field of view far wider than Hubble's, per NASA.
