NASAs Pegasus Barge, delivers the 212-foot core stage pathfinder for Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Weighing in at 228,000 pounds, the pathfinder is a full-scale mock-up of the rockets core stage and will be used to validate ground support equipme CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Seven decades have passed since the National Aeronautics and Space Administration made Florida the home of its launches.
But what made NASA choose the Sunshine State? To answer that, you have to look back at the 1940s. Space travel was only a dream back then.
Rockets were tested and launched from the White Sands Missile Range in the New Mexico desert. RELATED: How to watch the SpaceX Demo-2 Dragon launch But they weren’t the powerful behemoths we think of when we look at