Category: Photo of the Day

LAUNCHED FROM BREVARD: NASA Astronaut John Glenn Becomes First American to Orbit Earth 62 Years Ago

Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962. The launch happened at 9:47:39 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14, with powered flight lasting 5 minutes 1 second, and was completed normally. […]

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GOT PIE? Enter the Baking Contest at the Space Coast Key Lime Pie Festival

Is your home-made Key Lime Pie to die for? Do you have a hankering to show your pies against bakers from all across the Space Coast? Then you should enter your Key Lime Pie in the Key Lime Pie contest on Sunday, January 21, at the Space Coast Key Lime Pie Festival at Space Coast Daily Park in Viera. […]

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BUY TICKETS NOW! Country Music Icon Lee Greenwood Will Sing ‘God Bless The USA’ During Space Coast Key Lime Pie Festival in Viera

Tickets are now on sale to for Grammy Award-winning artist Lee Greenwood who will sing his patriotic hit songs “God Bless The U.S.A.” as part of the Space Coast Key Lime Pie Festival set to take place at Space Coast Daily Park from January 19 to 21 at Space Coast Daily Park in Viera. […]

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NASA HISTORY: ‘Ham the Astro Chimp’ Launched into Space From Cape Canaveral in January 1961

Ham the Astrochimp was launched from Brevard County for an 18-minute flight aboard a Mercury capsule that reached an altitude of 150 miles from Cape Canaveral on January 31, 1961.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket from Cape Canaveral Carrying Starlink Satellites

SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit on Friday, September 29 at 10:00 p.m. ET, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. […]

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Titusville’s First Police Chief Was A.J. Mefford, Used Model T as Patrol Car, Salary Was $125 a Month

Titusville’s First Chief of Police, A.J. Mefford, circa 1923, used a Model T as a patrol car. The population of Titusville at that time was 1,500 residents. Mefford’s son stands on the side board of this Model T Ford. This picture was taken in Blanton Park, located at the corner of Main Street and Park Avenue in Titusville. […]

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PHOTO GALLERY: SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Lights Up Space Coast with Sunday Night Launch from Cape Canaveral

SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday, July 23 at 8:50 p.m. ET. […]

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BREVARD HISTORY: Flashing Red Light Mounted on Tall Pole Was Main Communication Venue for Titusville Police in 1940s

Law enforcement technology has come a long way since the 1940s when the Titusville Police Department’s main means of communicating with patrol officers was a flashing red light mounted on a tall pole near S. Washington Avenue and Julia Street. […]

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s Hubble Telescope Checks On Galactic Neighbor 11 Million Light-Years Away

The highly irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, which resembles a lonely, hazy cloud against a backdrop of bright stars, dominates this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. […]

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