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Space Coast workers supporting launch activities will likely savor every second of the long Memorial Day weekend as SpaceX and United Launch Alliance gear up for an intense cadence in June.
Seventeen missions have flown from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in 2021, a breakneck pace considering the halfway mark is still a month out. If the cadence holds, this year could handily top 2020’s 31 launches – a significant count that approaches the intensity seen during the early days of the U.S. space program.