Minutes after the 2:16 p.m. liftoff, the SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage booster touched down at Landing Zone 2 — triggering sonic booms at Cape Canaveral.
Live updates from Tuesday's SpaceX NROL-77 national security mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
VAC officials hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 11 for the Lt. Cmdr. Stockton N. Smith Center, located next door to the nonprofit's warbird museum.